con
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“Lucky” on Apple TV features Anya Taylor-Joy as a con artist on the run.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 15, 2026
Ducted air con systems cost the most, between £990 and £1,750 without installation costs, according to Checkatrade.
From BBC ● Jul. 9, 2026
That’s most likely to happen not because you’re stupid or greedy, but because you’re vulnerable—and because the con artist knows exactly how to fabricate trustworthiness.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 30, 2026
But with that pro came a con -- at such an altitude, the device without its own propulsion would eventually drift closer to Earth and burn up in the atmosphere.
From Barron's ● Jun. 30, 2026
“Bah! A otro perro con ese hueso. That finca doesn’t belong to Lalao. That man doesn’t own the hole to lay his corpse in.”
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
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 thought Doreen Lawrence was being conned, so I phoned the Mail and I said 'this isn't true, I haven't given any statements'."
From BBC ● Mar. 23, 2026
He had successfully conned Renault and Leon and The Vigils and the whole damn school.
From "The Chocolate War" by Robert Cormier
A British woman who was charged with fraud after allegedly conning multiple people, including her son, to fund her lavish lifestyle will face further charges in Singapore.
From BBC ● Apr. 24, 2026
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
“I glad-handed from hell to breakfast, winning friends and conning people,” he wrote.
From "Black Like Me" by John Howard Griffin
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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