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Recent Examples of fraudulence
That sense of fraudulence seeped into other areas of her life, beyond pageantry.
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Zoey Lyttle, People.com, 27 Aug. 2025
If fraudulence signals are shared across departments, a candidate who bypassed one check could be caught by another.
—Casey Marquette, Forbes.com, 13 Aug. 2025
Against his mother’s advice, John Jr. dug into the family lore, unearthing all manner of fraudulence—enough to inspire this book.
—Dan Piepenbring, Harpers Magazine, 29 Apr. 2025
Don Draper is his own brand of sad dad: the ’60s family patriarch whose existential crisis sends him bouncing between absurd heights of self-confidence and heartbreaking lows of absolute fraudulence.
—Ben Travers, IndieWire, 11 Apr. 2025
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Zoey Lyttle, People.com, 27 Aug. 2025
If fraudulence signals are shared across departments, a candidate who bypassed one check could be caught by another.
—Casey Marquette, Forbes.com, 13 Aug. 2025
Against his mother’s advice, John Jr. dug into the family lore, unearthing all manner of fraudulence—enough to inspire this book.
—Dan Piepenbring, Harpers Magazine, 29 Apr. 2025
Don Draper is his own brand of sad dad: the ’60s family patriarch whose existential crisis sends him bouncing between absurd heights of self-confidence and heartbreaking lows of absolute fraudulence.
—Ben Travers, IndieWire, 11 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for fraudulence
Noun
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Now greater accountability around no true bills might help dissuade further chicanery by prosecutors.—
Quinta Jurecic,
The Atlantic,
11 June 2026
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There’s a tremendous amount of financial chicanery that goes on in 2026.—
Chris Murphy,
Vanity Fair,
11 June 2026
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Jakirovic was speaking before the EFL’s independent commission came down heavy on Southampton’s subterfuge.—
Philip Buckingham,
New York Times,
22 May 2026
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Skip the subterfuge as the sun and Mercury harmonize.—
USA TODAY,
USA Today,
14 May 2026
Noun
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Her lawyers, Giuseppe Iannaccone and Marcello Bana, have denied there was a case of grand larceny, which would include fraud and swindling.—
Luisa Zargani,
Footwear News,
14 Jan. 2026
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The stunt aims to confirm the robot’s physical capabilities and counter claims of digital trickery, marking an unusual strategy in a sector where technical specifications typically serve as proof.—
Jijo Malayil,
Interesting Engineering,
8 Dec. 2025
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Paired with the visual trickery of the hallucinations, the horrors of Sleep Awake often resemble sleep paralysis.—
Christopher Cruz,
Rolling Stone,
3 Dec. 2025
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The other one is the idea of political skullduggery going on in the background.—
Rick Porter,
HollywoodReporter,
29 Oct. 2025
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And though O’Neil, who has been inside, says the building itself is in no shape for skullduggery, that doesn’t mean said skullduggery isn’t happening elsewhere.—
A.K. Whitney,
Oc Register,
9 Sep. 2025
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This week, in testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee, Attorney General Pam Bondi gave a master class in obfuscation, prevarication, and pettiness.—
John Ficarra,
Air Mail,
11 Oct. 2025
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There was no picture, there was no drawing, there has been so many lies, so much prevarication, so much cover up.—
John Parkinson,
ABC News,
10 Sep. 2025
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Both Crystal and Tom’s personalities shine through these pages and illuminate the duplicities of drag.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
4 June 2026
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Britain’s largest police force, on the other hand, is presented as the height of duplicity.—
Jon O'Brien,
IndieWire,
3 June 2026
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In the finale of Season 2, the women have gotten past the lying and scheming and are in a new and more honest place.—
Rosy Cordero,
Deadline,
10 June 2026
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Just needed his seat in Congress despite his lying and cheating, kind of like the guy sitting in the White House.—
DP Opinion,
Denver Post,
8 June 2026
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“Fraudulence.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/fraudulence. Accessed 17 Jun. 2026.
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