Thesaurus results for CONN

conn

verb

ˈkän

variants also con

as in to steer

to operate or control the course of there was white-knuckle tension as the captain conned the gunboat through the mine-infested harbor

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Recent Examples of conn The centerpiece of his recent column is a list of quarterly rate increases after reform passed, presented as proof consumers were conned. —

David Wilson, The Orlando Sentinel, 11 Apr. 2026 How to get out of an awkward situation in order to avoid booking that plane ticket back to New York, where nothing much awaits her, after conning her way into a stranger’s home? —

Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 9 Apr. 2026 One of Sharma's gangster associates tells Keefe that once Sharma realized he'd been conned, there was no way Zac was leaving the apartment alive. —

Frank Langfitt, NPR, 4 Apr. 2026 Workers should be on the lookout for phony recruitment ads designed to con desperate people. —

ABC News, 25 Mar. 2026 Often these are aimed at either conning applicants into paying up-front fees or providing personal information that the scammers later use to gain access to credit in the victim’s name. —

Kathy Kristof, San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 Mar. 2026 Nationwide, scammers in 2024 conned Americans for $119 billion, an amount similar in size to the economy of New Hampshire, according to the report. —

Max Klaver, Miami Herald, 16 Mar. 2026 Her story highlighted the emotional manipulation scammers use to con their victims. —

Joshua Sidorowicz, CBS News, 11 Feb. 2026 What makes this case different is that key backers of the measure got conned, too. —

Daniel Borenstein, Mercury News, 9 Jan. 2026

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In the 90th minute, Adrian Marin delivered a driving cross into the box, and Martín Ojeda got just enough of his head on the ball to steer it home, sealing the dramatic victory.

— Kyle Foley, The Orlando Sentinel, 14 May 2026
Instead, the cabinet secretary taking the lead on steering the world’s most consequential bilateral ties has been Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, who met his Chinese counterpart in Seoul ahead of the summit in Beijing.

— Steven Jiang, CNN Money, 13 May 2026