cheat
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The lure of glory and riches on the biggest stages have tempted plenty of others to cheat.
From BBC ● Oct. 1, 2026
I don’t like to call it a cheat day.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 25, 2026
As such it comes off like a cheat, a deliberately soulless portrait that rejects our sympathies from the start, foreclosing the feelings of complication and complicity a more interesting movie might have generated.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 2026
There are concerns about AI use in schools and workplaces, with students using AI tools to "cheat" on assignments, being wrongly accused of using it and employees "smuggling" it into work.
From BBC ● Sep. 14, 2026
“Why the devil did he cheat me?” he demanded in his high strident voice, and for the first time looked straight at me.
From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin
James' prediction: This is a strange game for Liverpool because if we win then the narrative is going to be that we have beaten the cheats.
From BBC ● Oct. 8, 2026
If a player cheats even in low-stakes matches, what would compel him to play honestly when the outcome really matters?
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 3, 2026
If tax cheats want to lose money, that’s their problem.
From MarketWatch ● Apr. 18, 2026
Even in its most robust days, the IRS couldn’t “prosecute everyone who cheats on their taxes,” he says.
From Barron's ● Apr. 9, 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’d ask them, ‘Do you want to fly in a plane with a pilot who cheated his way through flight school?’”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 1, 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
The picture that began to congeal in his mind was the essence of injustice: battle-worn veterans of the war for independence being cheated out of their just rewards by mere moneymen.
From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis
But many collectors say buying online is tantamount to cheating.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 12, 2026
"And to those cheating the system, your claim will be thrown out, and you will be removed from this country."
From BBC ● Oct. 6, 2026
AI chatbots have made large-scale cheating among students -- what some educators call "homework scams" -- easier than ever, allowing them to generate credible solutions to almost any written assignment within seconds.
From Barron's ● Oct. 6, 2026
If cheating is wrong, how come so many cheat?
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 4, 2026
Sticky sent their query at once: Please advise about cheating.
From "The Mysterious Benedict Society" by Trenton Lee Stewart
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