con
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In August, the Western States Regional Council of Carpenters endorsed her, sponsoring an independent expenditure group for her called Estamos con Nithya for Mayor 2026.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 8, 2026
Unfortunately, Poyais was a fictitious country fabricated by a Scottish con man.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 29, 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
She said the sector had many decent businesses which were "undermined by far too many cowboys, crooks and con artists".
From BBC ● Sep. 29, 2026
This Valencia girl was nothing more than a con artist.
From "Hello, Universe" by Erin Entrada Kelly
How a master of deception conned investors out of $50 million — in his own words.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 29, 2026
Amie Donaghey, 21, told BBC News NI she was left with a criminal conviction after being conned by a ghost broker.
From BBC ● May 19, 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
A romance fraudster who conned men into spending tens of thousands of pounds to fund her lavish lifestyle has been jailed.
From BBC ● Mar. 25, 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
How do I set it up to help protect his assets from possibly someone who is conning him?
From MarketWatch ● Dec. 1, 2025
Three Southern California men are accused of conning over 100 victims — most of them elderly — into transferring funds over fraudulent security concerns or by way of falsified real estate sales.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 15, 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
He’s very good at conning millions of people into buying his grift.
From Salon ● Sep. 19, 2024
They dove thirty feet and then removed another three feet of sediment before uncovering one of the Hunley’s two small conning towers.
From "Shipwrecked!" by Martin W. Sandler
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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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