as in switcheroo
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a selling method in which a customer is attracted by the advertisement of a low-priced product but then is encouraged to buy a more expensive one
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Recent Examples of bait and switch
The Monkey isn’t really a Stand by Me–esque coming-of-age story, though — that’s part of Perkins’s bait and switch.
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Louis Peitzman, Vulture, 21 Feb. 2025
Related Articles The DOGE bait and switch Israel gets 3, Hamas 183.
—John Stossel, Orange County Register, 13 Feb. 2025
Cui bono? Someone is pulling a bait and switch here.
—Sonja Drimmer, Artforum, 1 Apr. 2025
And for an administration that has premised itself on efficiency, a never-ending loop of funding bait and switch does not exactly make for minimizing waste.
—Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 14 Mar. 2025
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Louis Peitzman, Vulture, 21 Feb. 2025
Related Articles The DOGE bait and switch Israel gets 3, Hamas 183.
—John Stossel, Orange County Register, 13 Feb. 2025
Cui bono? Someone is pulling a bait and switch here.
—Sonja Drimmer, Artforum, 1 Apr. 2025
And for an administration that has premised itself on efficiency, a never-ending loop of funding bait and switch does not exactly make for minimizing waste.
—Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 14 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for bait and switch
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There may be some larger point about voyeurism or exploitation or how annoyingly fast phone batteries drain, but it’s lost beneath a simplistic twist that pulls a switcheroo and fails to do much else.—
Charles Bramesco,
Vulture,
10 Apr. 2025
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Subsequent reporting said that the White House observed (a) that this pause was a personal decision on Trump’s part and (b) that the decision in favor of the switcheroo was made in the morning.—
The Editorial Board,
Chicago Tribune,
11 Apr. 2025
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Morgan Stanley launched a sale on Thursday of the final bits of debt related to Musk’s 2022 buyout of the company after a sharp turnaround in sentiment about its prospects.—
Bloomberg,
Mercury News,
25 Apr. 2025
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Washington, whose insertion as a starting safety last year triggered a defensive turnaround.—
Jeff Zrebiec,
New York Times,
25 Apr. 2025
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Gone are the days of sweating in heavy sneakers and tripping over flimsy flip-flops.—
Sara Coughlin,
SELF,
24 Apr. 2025
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Trump has since flip-flopped on many of those tariff plans, but uncertainty has continued to roil markets.—
Clare Duffy,
CNN Money,
23 Apr. 2025
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The lawsuit reflects a stark philosophical turnabout from the position on gender identity issues taken during Democratic administrations.—
Alanna Durkin Richer,
Los Angeles Times,
16 Apr. 2025
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Loading your audio article OAKLAND — Less than a year after Alameda County agreed to his release from prison in an abrupt turnabout, a local resident has been charged with nine felonies in connection with a recent shooting.—
Nate Gartrell,
Mercury News,
11 Apr. 2025
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Erdoğan may need Kurdish support to run again Some analysts have said public suggestions by Erdoğan's political allies that Ocalan, the 75-year-old PKK leader, could be released in return for a renunciation of violence, form part of an effort to woo Kurdish voters.—
Willem Marx,
NPR,
1 Mar. 2025
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Enacted after the Civil War as a renunciation of the Supreme Court’s ruling in Dred Scott v. Sandford, which held that Black people are not citizens of the U.S., the birthright citizenship clause has been relatively uncontested since 1868.—
Henry Gass,
The Christian Science Monitor,
30 Jan. 2025
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Britain is not the only country pressed into making a volte-face.—
London Business School,
Forbes,
24 Feb. 2025
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The realities of Putin’s momentum, coupled with Washington’s volte-face, have led to a clear mood shift in Kyiv.—
Daryna Mayer,
NBC News,
13 Feb. 2025
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Subscriptions like Billie cover this for you without a second thought.—
Sabina Wizemann,
Good Housekeeping,
30 Nov. 2022
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In America, the allure of material comfort is accepted without a second thought.—
Sarah Zhang,
The Atlantic,
20 Nov. 2022
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Radke has since doubled down with a second video on Sunday, again attacking the councillors and showing no indication of retraction.—
Jessica Lynch,
Billboard,
24 Mar. 2025
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With economic instability on the horizon, companies must take proactive measures to mitigate risks and uphold corporate responsibility in the void created by the retraction of government oversight.—
Solange Charas,
Forbes,
14 Mar. 2025
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“Bait and switch.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bait%20and%20switch. Accessed 5 May. 2025.
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