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The most audacious con game in American political history is unfolding before our eyes, and the marks don't even realize they're being fleeced.
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Nicholas Creel, MSNBC Newsweek, 30 June 2025
Also in the film: Sam Rockwell, Rebecca Pidgeon, Delroy Lindo and Patti LuPone.
2001: Sigourney Weaver in 'Heartbreakers'
Hackman is a rich man who gets caught up in a romantic con game run by a mother and daughter, played by Sigourney Weaver and Jennifer Love Hewitt.
—Mike Snider, USA TODAY, 1 Mar. 2025
Turks have always grasped better than most that modernity is something of a con game.
—Nick Danforth, Foreign Affairs, 4 Oct. 2014
Ernie tricks the young bowler into a con game that leaves Roy’s bowling hand crippled for life.
—Demetrius Simms, Robb Report, 1 Mar. 2024
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Nicholas Creel, MSNBC Newsweek, 30 June 2025
Also in the film: Sam Rockwell, Rebecca Pidgeon, Delroy Lindo and Patti LuPone.
2001: Sigourney Weaver in 'Heartbreakers'
Hackman is a rich man who gets caught up in a romantic con game run by a mother and daughter, played by Sigourney Weaver and Jennifer Love Hewitt.
—Mike Snider, USA TODAY, 1 Mar. 2025
Turks have always grasped better than most that modernity is something of a con game.
—Nick Danforth, Foreign Affairs, 4 Oct. 2014
Ernie tricks the young bowler into a con game that leaves Roy’s bowling hand crippled for life.
—Demetrius Simms, Robb Report, 1 Mar. 2024
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“Con game.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/con%20game. Accessed 21 Jul. 2025.
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