cheat on

verb

cheated on; cheating on; cheats on
informal
: to break a promise made to (someone, such as one's wife or husband) by having sex with someone else
He cheated on his wife/girlfriend.

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After graduating from college, Felicity learns that her boyfriend Ben has been cheating on her. — Yamillah Hurtado, PEOPLE, 29 Sep. 2026 Maybe that guy had cheated on his girlfriend and been kicked out of the house. — Anand Giridharadas, New Yorker, 26 Sep. 2026 The company has been conducting a broad review of its AI technology after an unreleased OpenAI model autonomously hacked Hugging Face to cheat on a cybersecurity benchmark test. — Michael Kan, PC Magazine, 25 Sep. 2026 Leigh, Beck was told, was a drug addict who had been cheating on him behind his back. — Josephine Reisman, Vulture, 24 Sep. 2026 See All Example Sentences for cheat on

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“Cheat on.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/cheat%20on. Accessed 1 Oct. 2026.

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