con
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Godzilla of con artists as ‘The Rehearsal’s’ Nathan Fielder tries to wrestle the truth out of Theranos’ Elizabeth Holmes.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 2026
A chorus of testimony from people who were once closest to Musk builds a profile of a megalomaniacal con artist.
From Salon ● Oct. 16, 2026
She said the sector had many decent businesses which were "undermined by far too many cowboys, crooks and con artists".
From BBC ● Sep. 29, 2026
I corresponded with con artists and attended a strange “medical” appointment that promised me invisible surgery and extraterrestrial matchmaking.
From Slate ● Sep. 22, 2026
He asked me again, earnestly, to con it out; and I admitted that the letters were not formed in complete perfection; that it resembled somewhat, Liberty to Slane, with a wriggling trail after the e.
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson
Earl Spencer said he did make "a connection" between the crash and the Panorama interview and said they conned both him and Diana.
From BBC ● Sep. 20, 2026
How a master of deception conned investors out of $50 million — in his own words.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 29, 2026
Cassidy maintained she had not conned her aunt.
From BBC ● Apr. 7, 2026
The second, Joan, a middle-aged heiress in Florida, was conned by Ken into believing that he was Jewish and a canny businessman.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 30, 2026
“I kind of conned you into believing you were falling in love with a healthy person,” he said.
From "The Fault in Our Stars" by John Green
Maybe his conning can be curtailed someday, but the thought there’d ever be enough distracting chaos for a similarly lengthy follow-up is almost too much to bear.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 9, 2026
How do I set it up to help protect his assets from possibly someone who is conning him?
From MarketWatch ● Dec. 1, 2025
Charles accused Usyk of "conning the referee" and said he "should be given an Oscar for that performance".
From BBC ● Jul. 18, 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
“I glad-handed from hell to breakfast, winning friends and conning people,” he wrote.
From "Black Like Me" by John Howard Griffin
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Common Core Grades 7–8, List 7
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Common Core Grades 9–10, List 7
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