cheating

Republicans have often claimed, without evidence, that Democrats overtaking them in the count is a sign that they are cheating, rather than a matter of logistics.

He last left prison in December 2023 and was soon simultaneously seeing several women he met through dating sites, cheating them out of money and even pretending to marry one victim.

Karrie Gaspard-Hogewood, a sociologist at Tulane University who studies neo-charismatic Christianity, characterizes this thinking as “God can’t be wrong, so it must be some kind of human error or nefariousness or cheating.”

Roy focuses in particular on how these Black writers responded to the experience of the Middle Passage — the traumatic journey from Africa to America made by newly enslaved people — which he describes as “cheating social death,” and on how they used “the established part of an existing system to create a new one that serves a fundamentally different form or function.”

In your discussion of cheating social death, you reference "bootstrapping," which you describe as “using the established part of an existing system to create a new one that serves a fundamentally different form or function.”