dupe

The latest example of this creative approach is “Buddy,” in theaters Friday, which takes the aesthetics of a ’90s kids show like “Barney” or “Blue’s Clues” to carve out a monstrous dupe.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 28, 2026

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

Now Zahid Hasan Akhand, who introduced himself as a barrister, was talking him through the different options and how to dupe the Home Office.

From BBC ● Apr. 15, 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

“That is the most unforgiving speech,” said Elizabeth, “that I ever heard you utter. Good girl! It would vex me, indeed, to see you again the dupe of Miss Bingley’s pretended regard.”

From "Pride and Prejudice" by Jane Austen

But even if there’s no hard camera footage of Kao giving Collins burlap sacks full of cash, there is undoubtedly a story that she got duped into delivering federal dollars to a scammer.

From Slate ● Sep. 26, 2026

Monk had been duped, according to charges later laid out in arrest warrants secured by the local sheriff’s department.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 14, 2026

Tourists duped into booking fake stays at 10 Downing Street.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 2, 2026

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

From BBC ● Aug. 19, 2026

The sophisticated Griswold worried that too many intelligent citizens were being duped by what he considered ghostly nonsense.

From "American Spirits" by Barb Rosenstock

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

Last month, the foreign minister told the BBC the Kenyan authorities had closed more than 600 recruitment agencies suspected of duping Kenyans with promises of jobs overseas.

From BBC ● Mar. 22, 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

Alongside developing a relationship with fans and duping them into thinking Fegan was real Tegan, Fegan crossed other boundaries with Tegan's personhood.

From Salon ● Oct. 18, 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