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
That was the only time I ever played the confidence game in my life, and my conscience has approved of it ever since.
From The Adventures of a Forty-niner An Historic Description of California, with Events and Ideas of San Francisco and Its People in Those Early Days by Ivanowski, Sigismond de
