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dupe

[doop, dyoop] / dup, djup /




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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

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

"If you're buying a single-ingredient product then you're probably going to be okay in using a dupe or something which is quite low cost because there's very little that can go wrong," she says.

From BBC Dec. 13, 2025

There was no doubt about it, the foxes were trying to dupe the Warlord.

From "Redwall" by Brian Jacques

Matthew's father was cleared of any involvement as he was also duped by Hayden-Johnson.

From BBC Aug. 19, 2026

In 2024, the British government released a video of a phone call in which the then foreign minister David Cameron was duped by someone posing as former Ukrainian president Petro Poroshenko.

From Barron's Aug. 17, 2026

In one Reddit thread about the jury-duty scam, a number of people describe being duped.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 9, 2026

And because Kendall didn’t disclose that she was paid to promote the ill-fated festival, she was ordered to pay $90K in restitution to the event’s duped investors.

From Salon Jul. 2, 2026

Red, realizing he had been duped, started through the crowd, which now was milling about in an agitated state with some people pressing forward toward the action and others fleeing from it.

From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy

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 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

The former chief executive stands accused of deliberately duping Volkswagen’s customers and shareholders, as well as German politicians.

From BBC Sep. 3, 2024

Prosecutors accused him of duping investors after he failed to disclose that he was being paid by tech startup Servergy to recruit them.

From Slate Mar. 27, 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




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