duplicity
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Like his partner in duplicity, Witkoff’s conflicts are numerous.
From Salon ● Apr. 16, 2026
The truth hovers tantalizingly out of focus, and the characters’ duplicity becomes its adversary.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 17, 2025
But his duplicity has been abundantly exposed during this trial, and he has clearly lost the right to be believed by his daughter.
From BBC ● Nov. 23, 2024
Finally, in August, Peters’ duplicity caught up with her.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 8, 2024
Knowing Courtney Cooper’s aware of the truth about me and my duplicity is one thing.
From "Odd One Out" by Nic Stone
Through their eyes, this thoughtful and deeply humane novel exposes some of the contradictions and quiet duplicities of ordinary life.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 30, 2026
He led us through the hallways of our insane asylums, the passions and duplicities our courtrooms, and into the blur of flying hair, free love, tie-dye and peace signs that marked our 1960s antiwar protests.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 16, 2018
Nguyen leaves us with a harrowing vision of the sprawling tragedies of wartime, and of the moral duplicities of which we are capable.
From The New Yorker ● Feb. 5, 2017
You could guess le Carré believes that the betrayals and duplicities throughout his 23 books are an integral part of human nature and likely to remain so.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 8, 2016
Slowly, however, his poise in the face of his own duplicities had begun to crumble.
From Gargoyles by Hecht, Ben
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