hoax
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He would later admit it was all a hoax, but not before the area became Hodag Country.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 13, 2026
There was also confusion in the middle of the Covid pandemic when a fake domestic league in Nauru was announced, with the hoax being very detailed down to team names and registered players.
From BBC ● Jul. 21, 2026
So maybe it’s all part of the same hoax.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 17, 2026
But many residents still believe Ebola is a hoax.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 16, 2026
What if they could get someone close to the Fox family to confess details of a hoax?
From "American Spirits" by Barb Rosenstock
He posted online about his ordeal to raise the alarm about increasingly sophisticated online hoaxes.
From Barron's ● Mar. 13, 2026
But he entertained audiences in many ways, with everything from blatant hoaxes to Shakespearean theater.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 25, 2026
The unloved product was shoved into every available online space, cluttering up the digital landscape with junk and hoaxes while promising a far-off profit and a future of easy living.
From Salon ● Nov. 7, 2025
The binder, offered by Kate Mitas, Bookseller for $5,000, contains 74 pieces of correspondence — epistolary catfishing at its finest and one of the great undiscovered literary hoaxes of the 20th century.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 2025
MACUSA’s Department of No-Maj Misinformation has put in extensive work to convince Muggles that sightings of Hodags have been hoaxes.
From "Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them" by J.K. Rowling
In May 2010, Lloyd thought he was being hoaxed when an agent finally agreed to work with him.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 15, 2023
Even odder: Te’o himself had been hoaxed, because he’d never met the person he thought he was dating.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 19, 2022
In 1996 Diana was hoaxed by the broadcaster Victor-Lewis-Smith posing as Stephen Hawking.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 11, 2020
The man who hoaxed detectives by claiming to be the Yorkshire Ripper has died, police have confirmed.
From BBC ● Aug. 20, 2019
We have been hoaxed along by comparable substitutes for technology right up to the present.
From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas
The author’s precise style is crisp as ever but with a wider emotional reach, exploring teenage friendship, imagination, hoaxing, propriety and rebellion.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 4, 2022
They devised a political education program, where many folks contemplated the use of hoaxing as a mechanism for social protest.
From Scientific American ● Oct. 12, 2020
“The hoaxing charge is problematic for Callimachi and the Times,” Wemple wrote.
From Fox News ● Sep. 29, 2020
He had no doubt that her terror at the original poltergeist activity was genuine, and he understood why an imaginative working-class woman might resort to supernatural hoaxing.
From The Guardian ● Sep. 19, 2020
But we suspect that some one has been hoaxing you about the four Turkeys.
From Punch - Volume 25 (Jul-Dec 1853) by Various
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