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[cheet] / tʃit /






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Some teachers, students and parents said the AI tools had made it too easy for students to cheat.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 3, 2026

Here is a last-minute cheat sheet covering key races in Los Angeles and L.A.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 3, 2026

Here’s a cheat sheet for sorting it all out.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 30, 2026

The department followed up by announcing a tax-fraud enforcement surge, highlighting dozens of cases accusing swindlers of trying to cheat the government out of a combined $490 million.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 21, 2026

But I worried that if people from other countries passed as Puerto Ricans in order to cheat the government, it reflected badly on us.

From "When I Was Puerto Rican" by Esmeralda Santiago

But so is a backlash around the gadgets, including concerns over people being filmed without consent and their use by exam cheats.

From Barron's ● Oct. 30, 2026

Villa supporters provided constant reminders to the travelling fans of their side being "cheats", and the vitriol faced following the guilty verdict of the financial charges may be beginning to weigh on the players' minds.

From BBC ● Oct. 24, 2026

The move, orchestrated by Everett to satisfy the demands of the company’s top-dollar backers, cheats Michael out of his stock options and equity in the company.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 2026

Mr. Firth’s team cheats, however, by using a handheld doohickey—a thingamabob—that controls minds, renders fire trucks invisible and can even restore electrical power.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 10, 2026

‘Wicked masster cheats us; cheats Sméagol, gollum. He musstn’t go that way. He musstn’t hurt Preciouss. Give it to Sméagol, yess, give it to us! Give it to uss!’

From "The Return of the King" by J.R.R. Tolkien

I feel cheated - when do Stoke City get our FA Cup?

From BBC ● Sep. 28, 2026

The video alleging the Patriots may have cheated on field goals.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 3, 2026

The Times has interviewed more than a dozen clients and investors who said they were cheated by Holdo.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 31, 2026

“A lot of people say, ‘Well, he’s got baggage, he cheated on his wife.’

From Salon ● Aug. 14, 2026

And in the middle of the exam he went and smoked a cigarette outside the window, but he watched me through the window in case I cheated.

From "The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time" by Mark Haddon

"The ministry will seek criminal charges against students caught cheating with smart glasses" in the future, Lee Joon-hyuk, an education ministry official, told AFP.

From Barron's ● Oct. 30, 2026

“I would rather face a player that was taking steroids than face a player that knew every pitch that was coming,” Wood tweeted after Manfred’s report on the Astros’ cheating.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 23, 2026

Carl, 47, and Laura, 48, say their book should not be mistaken for a manual on how to sustain the best marriage, or how to magically get over cheating.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 19, 2026

This is happening, it writes, "despite the furore over the cheating scandal".

From BBC ● Oct. 13, 2026

Turned out he’d been cheating folks for years, shorting their coffins and burial plots by six inches to a foot while charging full price.

From "Moon Over Manifest" by Clare Vanderpool


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