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hoax

[hohks] / hoʊks /


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Local law enforcement communicated with Supreme Court police to establish it was a hoax before sending officers.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 7, 2026

If affordability is a hoax, a whole lot of people seem to have bought into it.

From Salon • May 7, 2026

The documents describe an elaborate hoax in which the defendants allegedly created fake companies and fraudulent email accounts and driver’s licenses to help fool lenders into loaning them huge sums of money.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 16, 2026

Further sowing online confusion were claims that the entire Artemis II mission was a hoax powered by artificial intelligence tools.

From Barron's • Apr. 11, 2026

People began to assume it was all just an outlandish hoax perpetrated by a rich nut job.

From "Ready Player One: A Novel" by Ernest Cline




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