con
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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
You can be a con for a long time and then you realize, oh, this is just a character.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 14, 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
And it would be easy to conclude that he’s running a kind of big con.
From Slate ● Sep. 22, 2026
Haskell’s Dregs were old guard, con men and crooks from another time.
From "Six of Crows" by Leigh Bardugo
Prosecutor Chris Paxton KC said the total monetary value of the fraud was £86,868 and that Bush had conned 226 people who paid him for funeral plans, pocketing more than £550,000 over an 11-year period.
From BBC ● Jul. 28, 2026
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
But after referee Jalal Jayed made his way over to the pitchside monitor at the recommendation of the VAR and ruled the goal out, Shearer said on BBC One the Paraguayan had "conned the referee".
From BBC ● Jun. 30, 2026
How a master of deception conned investors out of $50 million — in his own words.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 29, 2026
He had successfully conned Renault and Leon and The Vigils and the whole damn school.
From "The Chocolate War" by Robert Cormier
I feel like you don't want the fight and you're just conning everybody.
From BBC ● Sep. 2, 2026
“She was a con artist. She was conning the government, and men,” Perry says.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 7, 2026
How do I set it up to help protect his assets from possibly someone who is conning him?
From MarketWatch ● Dec. 1, 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
On one wall, flashers and safety overrides blinked to indicate that there were electric malfunctions and topside failures, probably from having the conning deck go under.
From "Ship Breaker" by Paolo Bacigalupi
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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