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dupe
noun as in person who is fooled
verb as in fool someone
Example Sentences
The Murdochs’ and Fox’s lies about the election contributed to the Jan. 6 insurrection in the Capitol and duped millions of Americans into believing that the election was stolen.
They duped the woman, a cancer survivor, into sending the purported Pitt her life’s savings, including a divorce settlement from her marriage to a wealthy entrepreneur.
The dupe economy is so prevailing that TikTok videos with the #dupe hashtag had racked up nearly 6 billion views as of fall 2023.
His brief disappearance has only exposed how common the danger has become: others in the Chinese film industry have since shared their own accounts of being duped by scammers offering them jobs in Thailand.
Kent Trading Standards says scammers are using social media or clones of reputable travel websites to dupe people.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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