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
Even worse, recognizing the long con has degraded offline interactions as well.
From Salon ● Jul. 13, 2026
Portable air con units are easy to set up, use and move around homes.
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
For a while I made the meals we used to eat in Pátzcuaro—sopa tarasca and huachinango and corundas con churipo—but eating foods from home in a place that wasn’t our home only made things worse.
From "The Book of Unknown Americans" by Cristina Henríquez
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
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
He had begun listening to his mother with the dulled ear of someone who was about to be conned and knew it.
From "Song of Solomon" by Toni Morrison
“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
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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