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as in prisoner
a person convicted as a criminal and serving a prison sentence a program to help ex-cons find employment

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Full goggles: Night vision goggles mix some of the pros and cons of monoculars and binoculars. Bestreviews, Chicago Tribune, 9 June 2025 Further research is needed to compare the pros and cons of top-dressing tomato plants with coffee grounds. Kim Toscano, Southern Living, 4 June 2025
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Today, more than more than 220,000 people from across the world are estimated to have been trafficked to Myanmar and Cambodia and forced to con people around the globe out of their savings. Amy Gunia, CNN, 10 Mar. 2025 Zelensky reacted angrily to what seemed like a negotiation about his country’s future without his participation, after which Trump claimed on Truth Social that Zelensky had conned the U.S. into supporting the war. Keith Gessen, The New Yorker, 26 Feb. 2025 See All Example Sentences for con

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“Con.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/con. Accessed 3 Jul. 2025.

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