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cheat

[cheet] / tʃit /






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It pointed to a recent decision by the High Court in London that largely exonerated Renault and four other carmakers from charges that the devices were designed to cheat clean air laws.

From Barron's Jul. 27, 2026

Renault will face a criminal trial in France on aggravated fraud charges over accusations that devices in its diesel cars were designed to cheat clean air laws, the public prosecutor's office told AFP.

From Barron's Jul. 27, 2026

"They ask questions that are irrelevant and it comes across as they're accusing you of trying to cheat the system," he said.

From BBC Jul. 8, 2026

“A pellet cooker is a cheat code that gives you back about 85% of your time,” said Joe Zavala, of Zavala’s Barbecue outside Dallas, where he opts for the old-school route, with offset smokers.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 26, 2026

The first Saturday it was warm enough, he walked in circles around the base of the tree with a calculator and a cheat sheet of geometry equations.

From "Please Ignore Vera Dietz" by A.S. King

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

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

Rumour-mongers are the original fourth estate, journalists who inform society about and thus protect it from cheats and freeloaders.

From "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind" by Yuval Noah Harari

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

From MarketWatch Jul. 23, 2026

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

"I was incredibly shocked and felt cheated," he said.

From BBC Jul. 18, 2026

Many Iranian fans felt cheated by the outcome, calling on Fifa to investigate and highlighting several moments from the game on social media to argue their case.

From BBC Jun. 28, 2026

She has enough to be guilty of; she has cheated enough people of the things that matter most to them, without cheating about this, too.

From "A Heart in a Body in the World" by Deb Caletti

Protesters have been pushing for the resignation of India’s education minister, Dharmendra Pradhan, after this year’s undergraduate medical-school entrance exam was marred by allegations of cheating.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 25, 2026

Protest leaders are demanding government accountability over exam cheating and a lack of jobs.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 25, 2026

The spokesperson said that through “routine internal monitoring,” the department identified patterns in driver knowledge test results indicating that “some individuals may have attempted to circumvent the testing process using various cheating methods.”

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 15, 2026

The chess body said combating cheating remained one of its highest priorities, but it stressed that such allegations must be handled through its established procedures.

From BBC Jul. 4, 2026

Not to mention that I knew cheating was just plain wrong.

From "The Lions of Little Rock" by Kristin Levine




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