Words similar to busted

Example sentences for: busted

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The FBI and Moscow police recently busted the ring, but millions in treasure are still missing.
Even Pat Robertson got busted in 1988 for the use of a Christian Broadcasting Network plane--his travels were valued at $260,000.
Just five years ago, HMOs were the golden children of the busted health-care industry, imposing the cost controls and efficiencies everyone agreed the system needed.
First, police found 57 deaf Mexicans in "virtual slavery" in Queens ( New York Times ); then similar rackets were busted in North Carolina and Chicago.
But editorialists said Nicholson had made the investigators' job comically easy (he even climbed into a car with diplomatic plates registered to the Russian Embassy) and, even so, hadn't been caught and busted soon enough.