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Recent Examples of duplicity The publication, known for its close ties to Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, framed the talks as yet another round of predictable Western duplicity. Raja Krishnamoorthi, MSNBC Newsweek, 9 Apr. 2025 Now realizing the extent of her husband’s duplicity, the wife decided to help Nolan & Co. out. Matt Webb Mitovich, TVLine, 25 Feb. 2025 Until recently, the nervous system was not thought to be part of these duplicities, even when cancer had set up its primary residence in the brain. Ingrid Wickelgren, Scientific American, 14 Feb. 2025 The enduring emblem of this Administration and its duplicity is undoubtedly $TRUMP, a meme-coin scheme that has brought many millions of dollars in profits to the President and his fellow-investors. David Remnick, New Yorker, 27 Apr. 2025 See All Example Sentences for duplicity
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Noun
  • Last summer, an exponentially growing audience of fans watched her fall head-over-heels for Brit Aaron Evans, only to be left heartbroken over his deception and sobbing to an entirely too appropriate Sabrina Carpenter song chosen by the show's editors.
    KiMi Robinson, USA Today, 19 July 2025
  • Finding The Right Balance The cost of workplace deception is more than just a nasty surprise come employee feedback day.
    Dmitry Malin, Forbes.com, 15 July 2025
Noun
  • What begins as a convenient living arrangement spirals into a dangerous game of desire and deceit.
    Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 21 July 2025
  • But there’s more to the Prime Video series than just murder and deceit, says the actress, whose credits also include The Sinner and 7th Heaven.
    Beatrice Verhoeven, HollywoodReporter, 12 June 2025
Noun
  • Southeast Asia has become a global epicenter of cyber scams, where high-tech fraud meets human trafficking.
    Sydney Lake, Fortune, 14 July 2025
  • One exception is if the government was able to prove that citizenship was obtained through fraud in the case of naturalization.
    Christina Dugan Ramirez, FOXNews.com, 14 July 2025
Noun
  • Despite being outnumbered fifty-to-one by the Five Families of the Italian Mafia, the Westies’ legendary brutality and cunning have given them the leverage necessary to share the spoils through a fragile détente.
    Joe Otterson, Variety, 22 July 2025
  • Despite being outnumbered 50-to-1 by the Five Families of the Italian mafia, The Westies’ legendary brutality and cunning have given them the leverage necessary to share the spoils through a fragile détente.
    Rosy Cordero, Deadline, 24 June 2025

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“Duplicity.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/duplicity. Accessed 4 Aug. 2025.

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