con
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Recruiting con jobs have been around for years in some form.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 5, 2026
“I was frightened and frenzied, which is what con artists use to get our hard-earned cash.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 13, 2026
She describes it as a "recently modernised art-nouveau cinema/theatre transformed into a beautiful bookshop where you can order and drink, with air con, and relax a little bit with books around you".
From BBC ● Aug. 4, 2026
A friend had recently posted photographs from Barcelona, including several enviable angles of pan con tomate.
From Salon ● Aug. 1, 2026
When Maria's mother makes arroz con habichuelas y tostones, we trade dinners.
From "Brown Girl Dreaming" by Jacqueline Woodson
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
A woman conned by her accountant decades ago is staring at a six-figure tax bill after the Supreme Court refused to hear her case.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 25, 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
He invested in and then reputedly conned the 1980s rich-kids “Billionaire Boys Club” private-school students’ investment group.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 21, 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
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
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
You stage a power play by conning the older guy out of some fake winnings, then mouth around that you one-upped the boss.
From "X: A Novel" by Ilyasah Shabazz
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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