deception
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“He is a passionate believer in fair play and honesty and has no room for dishonesty or deception in any aspect of life,” Barker continued.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 22, 2026
The details of the deception are a little in the weeds, but Wedgewood ultimately came clean.
From Slate ● Oct. 22, 2026
His film is a self-reflexive study of the inability to act as people expect — of masking and deception.
From Salon ● Oct. 17, 2026
Still, “the colleagues who facilitated his ouster accuse him of a degree of deception that is untenable for any executive and dangerous for a leader of such a transformative technology.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026
The suggestion he’d been a liar, with his family as co-conspirators, egging him on with his deception and denial.
From "A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age" by Matt Richtel
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As “Love Island” alumnus Rob Rausch frequently reminded us and himself, whatever deceptions he committed were all part of playing a game.
From Salon ● Jun. 20, 2026
After his father’s death, Mr. Junod goes on a sort of genealogical quest, excavating Lou’s double and triple lives—mistresses, deceptions, suspicious deaths, ugly secrets—and more distant family history.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 5, 2026
From small social excuses to deliberate deceptions, lying is something most of us do, often without stopping to think about why.
From BBC ● Jan. 13, 2026
This time it was Elsie's failing health that kept him out of prison and he stayed quiet until her death in 2002 before the deceptions dangerously escalated.
From BBC ● Dec. 31, 2025
He didn’t think twice about the easy deceptions of Monday morning.
From "The Dead and the Gone" by Susan Beth Pfeffer
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A Web of Lies
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