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dupe

[doop, dyoop] / dup, dyup /




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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

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

More than a quarter of UK shoppers say they've bought a skincare or makeup dupe.

From BBC • Dec. 13, 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

The worst thing in the hustler’s world was to be a dupe.

From "The Autobiography of Malcolm X" by Alex Malcolm X;Hailey




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