dupe
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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
They couldn’t use a dupe or someone of questionable reliability for an operation of this magnitude.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 10, 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 Helena Independent called Rankin “a dagger in the hands of the German propagandists, a dupe of the Kaiser...a crying schoolgirl,” even though a majority of her constituents opposed the war.
From "Votes for Women!" by Winifred Conkling
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