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[cheet] / tʃit /






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If cheating is wrong, how come so many cheat?

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 4, 2026

The Nightingale data points to another type of phenomenon: agents trying to cheat during training runs, in which OpenAI tries to shape the bots’ behavior.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026

I don’t like to call it a cheat day.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 25, 2026

There are concerns about AI use in schools and workplaces, with students using AI tools to "cheat" on assignments, being wrongly accused of using it and employees "smuggling" it into work.

From BBC ● Sep. 14, 2026

“In a moment. But first you must know that I did not act purely out of charity. I wanted to prove my skill by curing Therese. I wanted to cheat Death of her.”

From "Ophelia" by Lisa Klein

He even cheats at golf, determined to “win” the game that most depends on personal integrity.

From Salon ● Jun. 13, 2026

Mr. Firth’s team cheats, however, by using a handheld doohickey—a thingamabob—that controls minds, renders fire trucks invisible and can even restore electrical power.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 10, 2026

If tax cheats want to lose money, that’s their problem.

From MarketWatch ● Apr. 18, 2026

Even in its most robust days, the IRS couldn’t “prosecute everyone who cheats on their taxes,” he says.

From Barron's ● Apr. 9, 2026

So Trout keeps body and soul together as a circulation man for the Ilium Gazette, manages newspaper delivery boys, bullies and flatters and cheats little kids.

From "Slaughterhouse-Five" by Kurt Vonnegut

The video alleging the Patriots may have cheated on field goals.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 3, 2026

The Times has interviewed more than a dozen clients and investors who said they were cheated by Holdo.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 31, 2026

“A lot of people say, ‘Well, he’s got baggage, he cheated on his wife.’

From Salon ● Aug. 14, 2026

Using stolen identities, AI tools and U.S. accomplices, its operatives have cheated their way into remote jobs at American companies—funneling millions of dollars back to Kim Jong Un’s regime.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 13, 2026

The picture that began to congeal in his mind was the essence of injustice: battle-worn veterans of the war for independence being cheated out of their just rewards by mere moneymen.

From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis

If cheating is wrong, how come so many cheat?

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 4, 2026

Fake Paralympians boss: 'I didn't know about cheating'

From BBC ● Oct. 1, 2026

Yet preventing cheating is only the beginning of the conversation.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 28, 2026

While Chelsea admitted effectively cheating, City have been found guilty.

From BBC ● Sep. 27, 2026

"But if the husband of that tittering Tarkheena friend of yours is paying his head groom to get the best oats, then I think the head groom is cheating him."

From "The Horse and His Boy" by C.S. Lewis




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