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as in cheat
a dishonest person who uses clever means to cheat others out of something of value
if it sounds too good to be true, you're probably dealing with a hoaxer in a boiler room somewhere
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as in fraud
one who makes false claims of identity or expertise
his college roommate turned out be a complete hoaxer and not the son of a wealthy shipping tycoon he said he was
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Noun
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By neglecting to impose a time or monkey limit on the experiment, the infinite monkey theorem essentially contains its own cheat code.—
Alexander Nazaryan,
New York Times,
3 Jan. 2025 -
Suarez felt like a cheat code in fantasy football that season.—
The Athletic UK Football Writers,
The Athletic,
30 Dec. 2024
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When Trump’s civil case on financial fraud ramped up in New York City — and through methods that are highly creative (and highly off-the-record) — Brourman finagled a seat with the other courtroom sketch artists, who were not entirely welcoming to this stilettoed upstart in their midst.—
Alex Morris,
Rolling Stone,
16 Jan. 2025
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Previous installments examined fraud in local governments, police vetting requirements and the water crisis in Kansas.—
Jonathan Shorman,
Kansas City Star,
16 Jan. 2025
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While the move aimed at keeping counterfeiters and tax dodgers on the back foot appears at odds with the growing popularity of cash-free transactions by consumers and businesses, central bank and finance ministry officials continue to flag the enduring importance of paper money.—
Marco Quiroz-Gutierrez,
Fortune Asia,
3 July 2024
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Indictment details In the indictment, the department’s tax attorneys portrayed Rotta as a perennial tax dodger.—
Jay Weaver,
Miami Herald,
22 Mar. 2024
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The story was updated to add details from an X employee who calls the screenshot a fake.—
Jess Weatherbed,
The Verge,
3 Jan. 2025
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In this essay for The Paris Review, Simon Wu recounts his experiences pining after, and eventually buying, six designer handbags: some real, some real but used, and one fake.—
Cheri Lucas Rowlands,
Longreads,
17 Dec. 2024
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Taxonomic charts on the walls borrow the aesthetic of science but are populated with terms from the history of art and absurd twists: a bird is labeled with the names of 20th-century avant-garde movements, a shark is juxtaposed with a rolling pin and a cola bottle.—
Kelly Presutti,
ARTnews.com,
10 Jan. 2025
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Unless Jordan got eaten by a shark or something like that, there was no catching him — and even the shark would've probably had a tough time catching him.—
Sydney Bucksbaum,
EW.com,
9 Jan. 2025
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The 2018 election was widely considered a sham after his government banned major opposition parties from participating.—
Regina Garcia Cano,
Los Angeles Times,
10 Jan. 2025
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Speaker of the House Mike Johnson and others used this access to delegitimize every part of the proceeding, calling the trial a sham, questioning witnesses’ credibility, and accusing Merchan of bias.—
Richard Robbins,
New York Daily News,
9 Jan. 2025
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The scammer also sent semi-convincing personalized AI images of Pitt in a hospital via social media and messaging apps to the woman for more than a year.—
Daniel Kreps,
Rolling Stone,
16 Jan. 2025
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At the time of writing, police are still searching for the scammer.—
Michael Gfoeller And David H. Rundell,
Newsweek,
16 Jan. 2025
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In some cases, the CFPB said, some consumers actually were told to contact the fraudsters directly to recover their money.—
Susan Tompor,
Detroit Free Press,
20 Dec. 2024
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Earlier this year, French, Italian, and Swiss police forces teamed up to bust a ring of wine fraudsters who were selling counterfeited Grand Cru wines (the premier designation of quality in French wine) for up to €15,000 a bottle.—
Chris Hall,
WIRED,
18 Dec. 2024
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