con game

Example Sentences

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Great acting is a con game, of the highest order, and it’s a pleasure to be Moore’s mark.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 16, 2023

Durant was a con game presented by the front office — even if they were conning themselves.

From Washington Times • Jun. 7, 2022

Instead we get an extremely neat, generally perky, overly cautious take on a musical that, being about the con game of love and music, needs more danger in the telling.

From New York Times • Feb. 10, 2022

The only ones to suffer here might be the institutions of higher learning themselves, many of which are running a con game for their own financial benefit.

From Washington Post • Jan. 28, 2022

Before I get to a serious application, I’d like to mention another con game which works because of confusion about conditional probability.

From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos