dupe
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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
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
It took a hit this week after former executives accused it of manipulating markets to dupe consumers into buying its products.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 24, 2025
More than a quarter of UK shoppers say they've bought a skincare or makeup dupe.
From BBC ● Dec. 13, 2025
But it was Heleen she’d wanted to dupe.
From "Six of Crows" by Leigh Bardugo
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The co-founder of Apollo said he was duped by the man he hired as a financial adviser, according to remarks prepared for Congress.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 26, 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
But the victim, realizing he’d been duped, had reached out to police.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 13, 2026
Many victims say they were duped by scammers who had professional-looking photos, wore immigration uniforms and staged realistic virtual hearings.
From Salon ● May 2, 2026
Angry and feeling duped, the team piled into the jeep for the ride home.
From "Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam" by Elizabeth Partridge
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In February, Kenya's foreign minister told the BBC that more than 600 recruitment agencies suspected of duping Kenyans with promises of jobs abroad had been closed.
From BBC ● Apr. 8, 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
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
Then in May, the U.S. attorney’s office for the Eastern District of New York indicted Santos, accusing him of duping donors, stealing from his campaign and lying to Congress.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 30, 2023
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
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