defraud
Example Sentences
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A woman who defrauded more than £23,000 in benefits claiming she was too ill to go outside has avoided jail after she was caught surfing and ziplining in Mexico.
From BBC
But the jury absolved Musk of “engaging in a scheme to defraud Twitter investors.”
He also commuted the sentence of David Gentile, a former private-equity executive who was 12 days into serving a seven-year prison sentence for defrauding investors.
Then last month, Indonesian authorities arrested 11 people, including customs officials, accused of defrauding the government between 2022 and 2024 by labelling palm oil as POME.
From Barron's
The U.S. attorney’s office in Manhattan alleged that Regan defrauded more than 300 investors of at least $50 million based on “materially false and misleading” claims.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
