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hoax

verb as in trick

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He called climate change a ‘hoax’ and derided clean energy.

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"I remember vividly talking to people in the office and thinking it was a hoax - that's where the excitement level was," he said.

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Finally, when pressed to explain what part of all this was a hoax, Leavitt said, “The hoax is Democrats pretending to care about victims of crime when they’ve done nothing.”

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And Leavitt was very careful not to call the book itself a hoax.

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“I did not say the documents are a hoax,” she said.

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