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Noun
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Consider the vivid hypocrisy of the ICE agents who were seen feasting at the popular El Tapatio Mexican Restaurant in Willmar, Minnesota, and then returning later to arrest the owner and employees of this café that had graciously served them.—
Jeffrey Sonnenfeld,
Fortune,
21 Jan. 2026 -
Essays such as DeMarsh’s are steeped in hypocrisy.—
Letters to the Editor,
The Orlando Sentinel,
11 Jan. 2026
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Ay, the superb slyness of that last response!—
Anthony Lane,
New Yorker,
8 Sep. 2025
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Ever since, the president and his closest allies haven’t stopped trying to repackage the perfidy as patriotism.—
Bloomberg Opinion,
Twin Cities,
27 Nov. 2025
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The ignorance, the hubris, the lies, the perfidy.—
Wesley Stenzel,
Entertainment Weekly,
31 Oct. 2025
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Despite his layered duplicity, Jonathan understands and defines himself by courting risk.—
Emily Zemler,
Los Angeles Times,
11 Jan. 2026
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Morgan Freeman’s Thaddeus shows up, still twinkling with duplicity.—
Owen Gleiberman,
Variety,
11 Nov. 2025
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McCaffrey caught another fourth-quarter touchdown pass, on Jauan Jennings’ 29-yard trickery to open the fourth quarter for a brief lead.—
Cam Inman,
Mercury News,
12 Jan. 2026
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Still, American bettors have found an easy work-around in the digital trickery of VPNs, or virtual private networks.—
Will Gottsegen,
The Atlantic,
6 Jan. 2026
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Morgan added that this level of deception would make sense for someone trying to throw people off, like investigators or a potential lawsuit.—
Adam Sabes,
FOXNews.com,
20 Jan. 2026
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Consumer protection law isn’t meant to shield people from every assumption a brand name might invite, but from genuine deception on which a reasonable buyer would rely.—
The Editorial Board,
Chicago Tribune,
15 Jan. 2026
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The scientists found that the slipperiness did not depend on the speed, suggesting that frictional heating — which should increase with speed — isn’t what makes ice slippery.—
Quanta Magazine,
Quanta Magazine,
8 Dec. 2025
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That slipperiness, and Scorigamis more broadly, have been the subject of deep study over the past year.—
Josh Levin,
The Atlantic,
5 Dec. 2025
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This brand of cream cheese got lots of love for its smoothness and creaminess.—
Catherine Jessee,
Southern Living,
4 Jan. 2026
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The variety of body types and shapes shown here, often covered in very little, is a reminder that despite the smoothness of the people held up as worthy of admiration on Instagram, most people’s bodies and faces have lumps and bumps and creases and crinkles.—
Catherine Bray,
Variety,
17 Dec. 2025
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