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cheat

[cheet] / tʃit /






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Steve Thomas said the Pip assessment process felt like "they're accusing you of trying to cheat the system"

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

“When I think about what’s most important in college, it is learning to think through things. My deepest fear about this technology is that it is allowing students cheat codes to avoid thinking things through.”

From MarketWatch Jun. 22, 2026

But the European Union unlocked one potential cheat code by promising voluntary guidelines to manage video games' "end of life".

From Barron's Jun. 16, 2026

“I was back here when she returned. She tried to cheat her new driver just as she cheated me.”

From "Homeless Bird" by Gloria Whelan

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

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

From BBC May 21, 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

Shaggy Hair doesn’t like to play as much as I do, but he doesn’t talk all the time and he never cheats, so I like it when he plays.

From "The Tenth Mistake of Hank Hooperman" by Gennifer Choldenko

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

You, understandably, feel cheated out of a couple of hundred thousand dollars that would have made a difference to you, and especially to your brother.

From MarketWatch Jul. 6, 2026

He cheated Vanderbilt with a short selling operation in Erie shares that caused the market overall to fall.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 12, 2026

“He’ll just have to let us take a ride!'' Scipio said after a while into the blackness. “I mean, he was the one who cheated on us.”

From "The Thief Lord" by Cornelia Funke

Thousands of California drivers are being required to retake their knowledge tests because the Department of Motor Vehicles suspects them of cheating.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 15, 2026

He was then very confused when he received the warning letter last month and initially thought that the DMV had suspected him of cheating because he completed the test very quickly.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 7, 2026

Former Conservative MP Craig Williams has pleaded guilty to cheating at gambling by placing bets on the date of the 2024 general election.

From BBC Jun. 29, 2026

He said the cheating and postseason ban hurt his recruiting prospects.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 28, 2026

Once he wakes up and grins so craftily that we are alarmed and begin to think he is cheating, and that we have given him the punch to no purpose.

From "All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel" by Erich Maria Remarque




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