con game
Example Sentences
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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
These movies ask: To what extent is love a con game?
From Washington Post • Dec. 29, 2018
“It’s a con game they’re playing,” he said Tuesday.
From Seattle Times • Sep. 25, 2018
In the mid-’90s, Raniere signed a consent order that didn’t admit wrongdoing, but did force him to agree he’d never initiate another con game of that exact variety.
From Salon • Jul. 18, 2018
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
