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cheat

[cheet] / tʃit /






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Most of us aren’t trying to cheat the system, but expectations are changing so quickly that we need to be savvy about what the latest employee trackers are looking for.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 20, 2026

As students turn to chatbots for schoolwork, teachers and parents also worry that teens will use the tools to cheat or avoid practicing critical thinking skills.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 18, 2026

Weigh those cons against the things AI has reliably proven it can do – cheat on homework and write janky code – and it’s easy to understand Sanders’ urge to stand and yell “stop!”

From Salon Aug. 12, 2026

Past findings produced by Wada suggest micro-dosing could evade detection methods, and so the scope to cheat in professional sport remains, meaning all efforts must be taken to ensure nobody beats the system.

From BBC Jul. 27, 2026

No one would suspect her of cheating, because who in her right mind would make such a spectacle of herself if she intended to cheat?

From "The Mysterious Benedict Society" by Trenton Lee Stewart

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

In other words, they’re not just culinary cheats.

From Salon Jun. 2, 2026

Filtering out dating cheats was also behind the creation of Cherry dating.

From BBC May 21, 2026

"People who got here last night have gone to the front, people who cut this morning, whoever cheats and pushes the hardest hits to front."

From Barron's May 16, 2026

But me, she knows that I don’t care about that guy, especially if he cheats on my cousin and is mean to her.

From "American Street" by Ibi Zoboi

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

From Salon Aug. 14, 2026

Related: ‘I found out too late’: My stepmother cheated me out of $500K from my father’s estate.

From MarketWatch Jul. 23, 2026

But this was not an issue over whether he deliberately cheated.

From BBC Jul. 20, 2026

Although receipt of the letter does not indicate that someone definitively cheated, an unspecified number of cases have been referred to district attorneys for prosecution, the spokesperson said.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 15, 2026

Selkie cheated a lot; Chica didn’t cheat much, but when she did, she was very good at it.

From "Nim’s Island" by Wendy Orr

And most people contend that plagiarism, cheating and ghostwriting are all cut from the same cloth because they all lack the spark that we ascribe to truly original thinking and writing.

From Salon Aug. 23, 2026

Sandoval’s ex, Dillon Maquindang, stood at a podium Thursday morning and decried the defendant for cheating on them, manipulating them and taking out his failures on Maquindang’s family.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 13, 2026

He counsels letter writers on how to handle a cheating brother, discuss religion with a devout friend, and avoid spiraling over the fear of being single forever.

From Slate Aug. 5, 2026

Following the furore surrounding Saltburn Cricket Club over an alleged cheating scandal, the club's second team's Wednesday evening match has been cancelled.

From BBC Jul. 29, 2026

I make a mental note to stop cheating in Monopoly.

From "Kwame Crashes the Underworld" by Craig Kofi Farmer




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