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But VAR intervened, declaring that Embolo had crashed to the pitch in an effort to dupe the referee—an offense deemed worthy of ejection.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 12, 2026

And Ms. Millonzi wisely avoids turning Roderigo into an overly whiny and dim dupe.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 3, 2026

Large language models are used to write convincing emails to dupe people out of their money, causing an eight-fold increase in complaints from older Americans as they lost $4.9 billion in online fraud in 2025.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 5, 2026

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

From BBC ● Mar. 4, 2026

I was disgusted with myself for having let her dupe me.

From "Burning Blue" by Paul Griffin

But even if there’s no hard camera footage of Kao giving Collins burlap sacks full of cash, there is undoubtedly a story that she got duped into delivering federal dollars to a scammer.

From Slate ● Sep. 26, 2026

The victims were duped into thinking that a model agency was interested in them, with emails telling them they had potential after they responded to a local photographic studio and social media advertising campaign.

From BBC ● Sep. 18, 2026

Monk had been duped, according to charges later laid out in arrest warrants secured by the local sheriff’s department.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 14, 2026

But the optimist in me still gets duped from time to time.

From Salon ● Sep. 2, 2026

The two of them were so happy and boisterous that they didn't even seem to mind anymore that the Conte had duped them.

From "The Thief Lord" by Cornelia Funke

Though there have been stories about kids cutting through the pouches or duping administrators by putting in decoy phones, those troublemakers amount to only a small percentage.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 29, 2026

The indictment alleges the organisation had been duping its supporters by obtaining "money via donations through materially false representations and omissions about what the donated funds would be used for".

From BBC ● Apr. 22, 2026

The agency, which protects consumers from unfair business practices, accused Amazon of duping people into automatically renewing their Amazon Prime subscriptions through “manipulative, coercive, or deceptive user-interface designs.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 25, 2025

Alongside developing a relationship with fans and duping them into thinking Fegan was real Tegan, Fegan crossed other boundaries with Tegan's personhood.

From Salon ● Oct. 18, 2024

The entire food chain of intermediaries in the subprime mortgage market was duping itself with the same trick, using the foreshortened, statistically meaningless past to predict the future.

From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis