dupe
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Large language models are used to write convincing emails to dupe people out of their money, causing an eight-fold increase in complaints from older Americans as they lost $4.9 billion in online fraud in 2025.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 5, 2026
"If you're buying a single-ingredient product then you're probably going to be okay in using a dupe or something which is quite low cost because there's very little that can go wrong," she says.
From BBC • Dec. 13, 2025
They couldn’t use a dupe or someone of questionable reliability for an operation of this magnitude.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 10, 2025
Not to mention that your subjects will probably realize if they’ve been served a vegetable-based dupe of the real thing.
From Slate • Aug. 2, 2025
“I would sooner swear an oath on an anvil and do honest work than dupe the world with make-believe.”
From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor
Vocabulary lists containing dupe
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