con
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Recruiting con jobs have been around for years in some form.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 5, 2026
Some became cold hubs during the hot summer so people could make use of the air con.
From BBC ● Aug. 26, 2026
The con supplies the plot, but the movie is really about what happens when people who lie for a living start trusting one another.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 20, 2026
Jonathan, who had dealt with both real police and con artists before, said it was hard in the moment to tell which side he was talking to.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 9, 2026
Papi and I sat at the table, while she drifted in and out of the kitchen bringing us food, water, a chunk of bread, and finally, a steaming cup of sweetened café con leche.
From "When I Was Puerto Rican" by Esmeralda Santiago
Lexington, Ky., was conned out of $3.9 million a year later, but authorities seized all of it from a private bank account.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 21, 2026
How a master of deception conned investors out of $50 million — in his own words.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 29, 2026
And so the question is whether there is really much countries can do to turn the tables on the scammers and prevent many more people like Kirsty being conned out of their savings?
From BBC ● Apr. 18, 2026
A romance fraudster who conned men into spending tens of thousands of pounds to fund her lavish lifestyle has been jailed.
From BBC ● Mar. 25, 2026
For all she knew, he’d conned some poor honest trader out of his life savings to make the Crow Club thrive.
From "Six of Crows" by Leigh Bardugo
How do I set it up to help protect his assets from possibly someone who is conning him?
From MarketWatch ● Dec. 1, 2025
Three Southern California men are accused of conning over 100 victims — most of them elderly — into transferring funds over fraudulent security concerns or by way of falsified real estate sales.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 15, 2025
Yet it was this exact determination—to build power in an inherently flawed system—that turned him into the conning strategist he became.
From Slate ● Dec. 12, 2024
A pensioner who was jailed a decade ago for conning friends out of £2.5m has been sent back to prison after defrauding a neighbour out of more than £100,000.
From BBC ● Sep. 27, 2024
From the conning tower, another soldier whistled to him, and he ran back toward the hatch with it.
From "Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children" by Ransom Riggs
Vocabulary lists containing con
Common Core Grades 7–8, List 7
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Common Core Grades 9–10, List 7
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