dupe

Williams-Sonoma is suing Quince over the sale of “dupes,” or similar-looking, cheaper versions of its home goods, highlighting a growing trend.

Questions multiplied, but one seemed more elusive than the rest: How did a baby-faced novice from small-town California dupe some of academia’s brightest minds?

His KGB contact, who believes him to be a double agent, raises the stakes by asking him for information on Faith—though she has encouraged Gabriel to accept Soviet payments to dupe the Russians.

He claimed he had been "completely duped" over the facts about the Hillsborough disaster.

The entire food chain of intermediaries in the subprime mortgage market was duping itself with the same trick, using the foreshortened, statistically meaningless past to predict the future.