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
But if the banking business is ultimately a confidence game, the game ended quickly.
From New York Times • Mar. 11, 2023
Whether to be 'touted' was to be held up, buncoed, or drugged and robbed, I had no definite notion; but I took it to be a confidence game of some sort and despised it accordingly.
From Checkers A Hard-luck Story by Blossom, Henry M.
