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cheater

[chee-ter] / ˈtʃi tər /


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The cheater is just as insecure, if not more, than the person who’s scared to get cheated on.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 22, 2026

Several American golfers stood up for the LIV player, prime among them Scheffler, who insisted that DeChambeau is "not a cheater".

From BBC ● Jul. 20, 2026

Letlhogonolo Mogale, who binged the show days after its release, described Jonasi as an "serial cheater" and "opportunist who would do anything to satisfy himself".

From BBC ● Jun. 26, 2026

One depicted a Louis Vuitton bag with the caption: “I’ve never seen a cheater lose so why would I play fair?”

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 24, 2026

“The rest of you sit tight. I’ll send another Executive to monitor your quiz—which, thanks to this cheater, you’ll all have to start over from the beginning.”

From "The Mysterious Benedict Society" by Trenton Lee Stewart

California highway patrol is getting wise to jackets and mannequins by carpool lane cheaters.

From MarketWatch ● Mar. 19, 2026

Amusingly, Mr. Romney takes pains to point out that beneficiaries of this tax provision weren’t cheaters; they were playing by the rules.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 7, 2026

Those changes include trying to deal with the cheaters and "bots" - machines pretending to be players to level up characters without effort - and doing something almost unthinkable in modern games.

From BBC ● Jan. 5, 2026

This is the shifting of games by cheaters, and more than that, by a form of cheating that sports leagues and sportsbooks have helped to explode.

From Slate ● Nov. 11, 2025

Rather, he wanted to make sure that the teachers identified by the algorithm as cheaters were truly cheating—and then do something about it.

From "Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything" by Steven D. Levitt




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