dupe

Perfetti: On our best day, we’re trying to dupe people into believing that it’s real life.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 26, 2026

Before this season, savvy pitchers with expert command and dazzling spin had been able to dupe human umps into calling strikes on balls just off the plate, a time-honored tradition that had existed for generations.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 6, 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

People should also watch out for scams, with criminals attempting to dupe taxpayers by purporting to be from HMRC.

From BBC ● Jan. 30, 2026

The Helena Independent called Rankin “a dagger in the hands of the German propagandists, a dupe of the Kaiser...a crying schoolgirl,” even though a majority of her constituents opposed the war.

From "Votes for Women!" by Winifred Conkling

Several African countries have in recent months reported that their citizens have been duped into fighting for the Russian army with many dying on the battlefield.

From Barron's ● Jul. 18, 2026

The trial hinged on the question of whether Rogers was knowingly advancing China’s interests in sharing information, or had been duped into helping spies he believed were academics.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 15, 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

In Thailand, lawmakers are hearing a complaint by 126 fans who were duped by an offer to help them "wait in line" for tickets.

From BBC ● Jun. 21, 2026

“Saving them? Is that what you call it? Is that how easily he’s duped you? This greedy imposter fills your head with rubbish and you become a traitor?”

From "Salt to the Sea" by Ruta Sepetys

Scammers have become increasingly adept at duping customers into sending payments through elaborate social engineering schemes, including by developing romantic connections to their victims.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 5, 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

Somehow, boxing has a knack of duping the public.

From BBC ● Nov. 16, 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