dupe

Example Sentences

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The gang even made fake double yellow lines made from stickers to dupe police.

From BBC • Mar. 4, 2026

It took a hit this week after former executives accused it of manipulating markets to dupe consumers into buying its products.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 24, 2025

Questions multiplied, but one seemed more elusive than the rest: How did a baby-faced novice from small-town California dupe some of academia’s brightest minds?

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 22, 2025

Not to mention that your subjects will probably realize if they’ve been served a vegetable-based dupe of the real thing.

From Slate • Aug. 2, 2025

“I would sooner swear an oath on an anvil and do honest work than dupe the world with make-believe.”

From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor