as in to cheat
to rob by the use of trickery or threats
senior citizens generally were too smart to fall for the fast-talking salesman's attempts to defraud them
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Recent Examples of defraud
Listen to this article A Woodbridge man has pleaded guilty to federal charges in connection with a scheme to defraud a COVID-19 pandemic relief program out of more than $2.3 million.
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Justin Muszynski, Hartford Courant, 12 May 2025
The jurors acquitted her of four of the charges related to defrauding patients, and deadlocked on another three.
—Martha Ross, Mercury News, 12 May 2025
Listen to this article A Connecticut man faces wire fraud charges for allegedly defrauding Amazon out of more than $3 million.
—Justin Muszynski, Hartford Courant, 10 May 2025
By Bay City News A Fairfield travel agent has been sentenced to nine years behind bars for defrauding members of the South Asian community in Northern California, state prosecutors said Friday.
—Bay City News Service, Mercury News, 10 May 2025
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Justin Muszynski, Hartford Courant, 12 May 2025
The jurors acquitted her of four of the charges related to defrauding patients, and deadlocked on another three.
—Martha Ross, Mercury News, 12 May 2025
Listen to this article A Connecticut man faces wire fraud charges for allegedly defrauding Amazon out of more than $3 million.
—Justin Muszynski, Hartford Courant, 10 May 2025
By Bay City News A Fairfield travel agent has been sentenced to nine years behind bars for defrauding members of the South Asian community in Northern California, state prosecutors said Friday.
—Bay City News Service, Mercury News, 10 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for defraud
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But death in the Final Destination movies has a way of coming for those who cheat their fate, and in this case, the grim reaper wants the survivors of the Skyview disaster and their blood relatives.—
Tim Lammers,
Forbes.com,
20 May 2025
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Brunson ultimately aligned himself with fan-favorite LA Knight after Haliburton tried helping Paul to cheat during the match by giving him brass knuckles.—
Jason Jones,
New York Times,
20 May 2025
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Martinez’s son squeezed the trigger five times, shooting Rivera to death and wounding two others, the detective wrote in the affidavit.—
Matthew Ormseth,
Los Angeles Times,
24 May 2025
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Umberto Rispoli squeezed between horses around the top of the stretch and then rode Journalism to a tremendous rally.—
Baltimore Sun staff,
Baltimore Sun,
24 May 2025
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The defending champion Philadelphia Eagles have drawn the blueprint on perpetually pouring resources into the front seven on defense, consistently plucking players from SEC schools and throwing them onto an assembly line of quarterback mashers.—
Nick Kosmider,
New York Times,
22 May 2025
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Women dominate the lower tiers of tea labor, from plucking to packaging and remain vastly underrepresented in management, ownership, or policy influence.—
Dianne Plummer,
Forbes.com,
21 May 2025
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Police officers, firefighters and service members hustled to unload carloads of diapers, car seats, clothes, toys, books and toiletries that residents had dropped off.—
Tammy Murga,
Mercury News,
23 May 2025
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Neal Moritz was hustling the heck out of this from the jump.—
Michael Schneider,
Variety,
22 May 2025
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Its allure is rooted in seeing the celebrity guest melt beneath the weight of hot sauce: Shaq’s eyes stung red with tears, viscera gushed from O’Brien nose.—
Nicholas Quah,
Vulture,
27 May 2025
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Recent history suggests that Republicans would take few lessons from even a stinging rebuke in the midterms.—
Chris Stirewalt,
The Hill,
23 May 2025
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Their book has already generated a national debate about whether the White House deceived the public about the president’s condition and how Biden’s late exit from the race undermined the Democratic Party’s chances of stopping a second term for President Trump.—
Stephen Battaglio,
Los Angeles Times,
20 May 2025
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Although Bristol’s spring race may appear to have sparse crowds, this is somewhat deceiving.—
Jordan Bianchi,
New York Times,
19 May 2025
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One deepfake scam bilked Arup, a British design and engineering company that worked on the Sydney Opera House and Beijing’s Bird’s Nest stadium, out of $25 million last year.—
Tiffany Hsu,
New York Times,
22 May 2025
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From those schools, 10 teachers were bilked out of roughly $7,000 in credit card charges, Ware said.—
Andrew J. Campa,
Los Angeles Times,
1 May 2025
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Ozer swindled $207,100 from that project, falsifying bank records and forging correspondence from another producer to cover his tracks, officials said.—
Raechal Shewfelt,
EW.com,
6 May 2025
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Nacho is a trans man who was arrested for swindling and started a rock band in jail.—
Kate Erbland,
IndieWire,
23 Apr. 2025
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“Defraud.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/defraud. Accessed 2 Jun. 2025.
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