conning

Example Sentences

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“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

Layne Perry was found guilty of 23 counts of fraud at Cardiff Crown Court after conning three people of almost £250,000.

From BBC • Dec. 22, 2023

They dove thirty feet and then removed another three feet of sediment before uncovering one of the Hunley’s two small conning towers.

From "Shipwrecked!" by Martin W. Sandler