con
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Tales of charming fraudsters, cheaters and con artists are historically fascinating to the American audience.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 22, 2026
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
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
"But then how do you con your speeches?"
From "The Shakespeare Stealer" by Gary L. Blackwood
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
Amie Donaghey, 21, told BBC News NI she was left with a criminal conviction after being conned by a ghost broker.
From BBC ● May 19, 2026
A world champion Irish dancer has been left with a criminal conviction after being conned into thinking she had car insurance by a "ghost broker" who sold her a fake policy.
From BBC ● May 14, 2026
For all she knew, he’d conned some poor honest trader out of his life savings to make the Crow Club thrive.
From "Six of Crows" by Leigh Bardugo
Maybe his conning can be curtailed someday, but the thought there’d ever be enough distracting chaos for a similarly lengthy follow-up is almost too much to bear.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 9, 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
He’s very good at conning millions of people into buying his grift.
From Salon ● Sep. 19, 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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