con
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I corresponded with con artists and attended a strange “medical” appointment that promised me invisible surgery and extraterrestrial matchmaking.
From Slate ● Sep. 22, 2026
Robert Persichitte, a financial planner and fraud examiner with Delagify Financial in Arvada, Colo., says sports stars are especially attractive targets for con artists because they are so public.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 18, 2026
Some became cold hubs during the hot summer so people could make use of the air con.
From BBC ● Aug. 26, 2026
Cage plays Roy, a gifted con artist with obsessive-compulsive disorder whose tics, phobias and elaborate rituals have turned his immaculate home into a fortress against the world.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 20, 2026
“Word’s spread all over Manifest and beyond that you’re a con man par excellence,” Shady observed.
From "Moon Over Manifest" by Clare Vanderpool
How a master of deception conned investors out of $50 million — in his own words.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 29, 2026
And so the question is whether there is really much countries can do to turn the tables on the scammers and prevent many more people like Kirsty being conned out of their savings?
From BBC ● Apr. 18, 2026
The second, Joan, a middle-aged heiress in Florida, was conned by Ken into believing that he was Jewish and a canny businessman.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 30, 2026
"I thought Doreen Lawrence was being conned, so I phoned the Mail and I said 'this isn't true, I haven't given any statements'."
From BBC ● Mar. 23, 2026
She’d just been conned by a senior citizen.
From "As Brave As You" by Jason Reynolds
“She was a con artist. She was conning the government, and men,” Perry says.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 7, 2026
How do I set it up to help protect his assets from possibly someone who is conning him?
From MarketWatch ● Dec. 1, 2025
Yet it was this exact determination—to build power in an inherently flawed system—that turned him into the conning strategist he became.
From Slate ● Dec. 12, 2024
Essentially, Watson was accused of conning his “friends” out of tens of millions of dollars by lying, exaggerating and omitting the truth about Ozy’s unimpressive finances and performance.
From Salon ● Sep. 14, 2024
The shape of the diving plane slashing horizontally through the conning tower and the shark’s tail rudder at the back was like nothing he had ever seen.
From "Stormbreaker" by Anthony Horowitz
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Common Core Grades 7–8, List 7
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Common Core Grades 9–10, List 7
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