conning

Example Sentences

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“She was a con artist. She was conning the government, and men,” Perry says.

From Los Angeles Times • May 7, 2026

How do I set it up to help protect his assets from possibly someone who is conning him?

From MarketWatch • Dec. 1, 2025

In January 2023 he was jailed at Isleworth Crown Court for a separate fraud after conning £16,700 from another woman.

From BBC • Nov. 22, 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

Hulls lay like chunks of cleavered fish: a conning tower here, a crew quarters there, the prow of an oil tanker pointing straight up to the sky.

From "Ship Breaker" by Paolo Bacigalupi