con
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“My daughter makes better arroz con gandules than all of us,” Rodriguez says.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 2026
A chorus of testimony from people who were once closest to Musk builds a profile of a megalomaniacal con artist.
From Salon ● Oct. 16, 2026
I corresponded with con artists and attended a strange “medical” appointment that promised me invisible surgery and extraterrestrial matchmaking.
From Slate ● Sep. 22, 2026
If the con isn’t about grabbing money upfront, Lee said scammers are playing the long game.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 5, 2026
This Valencia girl was nothing more than a con artist.
From "Hello, Universe" by Erin Entrada Kelly
Lexington, Ky., was conned out of $3.9 million a year later, but authorities seized all of it from a private bank account.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 21, 2026
How a master of deception conned investors out of $50 million — in his own words.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 29, 2026
A world champion Irish dancer has been left with a criminal conviction after being conned into thinking she had car insurance by a "ghost broker" who sold her a fake policy.
From BBC ● May 14, 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
“I kind of conned you into believing you were falling in love with a healthy person,” he said.
From "The Fault in Our Stars" by John Green
“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
Too many players conning the ref trying to get advantage, in particular players going down holding face or head when never touched.
From BBC ● Nov. 11, 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
“I glad-handed from hell to breakfast, winning friends and conning people,” he wrote.
From "Black Like Me" by John Howard Griffin
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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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