con
Example Sentences
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“I think the con of that, with #MomTok, is that with all the opportunities, it kind of spreads us apart. We’re doing our own thing. It could break friendships. You’re getting envious. You get competitive.”
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 19, 2026
Ponzi bounced between con job and jail, dying broke.
From Barron's • Mar. 1, 2026
"He was a con man. And while I was conned, I have done nothing wrong and have nothing to hide."
From BBC • Feb. 18, 2026
In Hays: “Paper Moon,” a film about a Depression-era con man played by Ryan O’Neal and his little girl, was shot in black and white throughout Ellis County.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 16, 2026
“Bah! A otro perro con ese hueso. That finca doesn’t belong to Lalao. That man doesn’t own the hole to lay his corpse in.”
From "When I Was Puerto Rican" by Esmeralda Santiago
Vocabulary lists containing con
Common Core Grades 7–8, List 7
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"Curtis Aikens and the American Dream" and "Go For It!"
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Common Core Grades 9–10, List 7
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