confidence game
Example Sentences
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"We're building confidence game by game, and these three points are going to be vital for the end of the season, they can decide a title race."
From Barron's • Dec. 2, 2025
People purchase them because they think the value will appreciate “so obviously the confidence game will only work as long as people keep buying.”
From Reuters • Aug. 31, 2023
It’s a confidence game, and you will lose money.
From Seattle Times • Aug. 28, 2023
A portrait is a confidence game, and some artists are so intent on fooling the viewer that the “almost as if” disappears.
From Washington Post • Nov. 23, 2021
He knew he was honest himself, and did not once suspect that the agreeable young man was playing the confidence game upon him.
From The Boy Broker Or, Among the Kings of Wall Street by Munsey, Frank Andrew
