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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 -
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
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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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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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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 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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Flynn also said Bow Mar has not implemented all of the traffic calming measures recommended in a 2024 study, including additional speed-calming designs such as chicanes.—
Tori Mason,
CBS News,
10 June 2026
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The Italian driver locked up and went wide, having to go through the chicane and file behind Russell.—
Madeline Coleman,
New York Times,
24 May 2026
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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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The second variable Milanković defined is obliquity, a term that describes the angle of Earth’s rotational axis relative to a flat orbital plane.—
Rudy Molinek,
Smithsonian Magazine,
26 Aug. 2024
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“Mountebankery.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/mountebankery. Accessed 17 Jun. 2026.
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