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Those concerns were laid bare in the discovery process for the defamation case that Dominion Voting Systems took against Fox over false suggestions of fraud and other chicanery aired by guests on the network.—
Niall Stanage,
The Hill,
19 July 2025 -
Despite the chicanery, this is a solid deal for a phone that isn’t wildly different from the Pixel 9.—
Janhoi McGregor,
Forbes.com,
7 June 2025
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Maybe Payton’s running the best preseason subterfuge campaign ever to make Estime look bad on film.—
Sean Keeler,
Denver Post,
17 Aug. 2025
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On the other side of this triangle, Conrad has his own Belly-management system, which relies heavily on subterfuge and mostly comes down to attempts to feed her.—
Kathleen Walsh,
Vulture,
13 Aug. 2025
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Admissions of fraud by the Fox sisters, numerous exposures of trickery and growing secularism meant that interest in communicating with ghosts was rapidly dwindling.—
Alice Vernon
September 8,
Literary Hub,
8 Sep. 2025
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The rooms are packed with high-tech trickery which creates alien-like landscapes.—
Caroline Reid,
Forbes.com,
8 Sep. 2025
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When accusations of lying are going both ways, who gets to control the truth?—
The New Yorker,
New Yorker,
5 Sep. 2025
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But lying becomes second nature.—
Baz Bamigboye,
Deadline,
2 Sep. 2025
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The American people are seeking solace and inspiration from its leaders, not pettiness and skullduggery.—
Chicago Tribune,
Chicago Tribune,
10 Aug. 2025
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The Poetry Society becomes the Autobiographical Association, whose ridiculous members write their memoirs under the supervision of the director, a snooty character clearly conniving to use their confessions for some sort of skulduggery.—
Judith Shulevitz,
The Atlantic,
10 Aug. 2025
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Another horizontal measure would be a chicane, or concrete curbs jutting out like triangles into the road, like those near the Kroger in East Nashville.—
Brad Schmitt,
The Tennessean,
2 July 2025
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Norris initially overtook Piastri on the hairpin, but Piastri reclaimed the position on the long straight and into the final chicane.—
Sahil Kapur,
NBC news,
16 June 2025
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The angle this line makes to the ecliptic plane, which is the plane of the solar system in which all the planets orbit, is the obliquity.—
Keith Cooper,
Space.com,
11 Mar. 2025
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So how do obliquity variations affect the seasons on a planet?—
Gongjie Li,
Discover Magazine,
11 Jan. 2024
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That sense of fraudulence seeped into other areas of her life, beyond pageantry.—
Zoey Lyttle,
People.com,
27 Aug. 2025
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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
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“Mountebankery.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/mountebankery. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.
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