confidence man

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Noun
  • By neglecting to impose a time or monkey limit on the experiment, the infinite monkey theorem essentially contains its own cheat code.
    Alexander Nazaryan, New York Times, 3 Jan. 2025
  • Suarez felt like a cheat code in fantasy football that season.
    The Athletic UK Football Writers, The Athletic, 30 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • While the move aimed at keeping counterfeiters and tax dodgers on the back foot appears at odds with the growing popularity of cash-free transactions by consumers and businesses, central bank and finance ministry officials continue to flag the enduring importance of paper money.
    Marco Quiroz-Gutierrez, Fortune Asia, 3 July 2024
  • Indictment details In the indictment, the department’s tax attorneys portrayed Rotta as a perennial tax dodger.
    Jay Weaver, Miami Herald, 22 Mar. 2024
Noun
  • Taxonomic charts on the walls borrow the aesthetic of science but are populated with terms from the history of art and absurd twists: a bird is labeled with the names of 20th-century avant-garde movements, a shark is juxtaposed with a rolling pin and a cola bottle.
    Kelly Presutti, ARTnews.com, 10 Jan. 2025
  • Unless Jordan got eaten by a shark or something like that, there was no catching him — and even the shark would've probably had a tough time catching him.
    Sydney Bucksbaum, EW.com, 9 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • Yet as Russian war atrocities have become more evident, and Ukraine’s need for heavy armor has increased, the lines have grown blurrier and the rhetoric sharper.
    David E. Sanger, New York Times, 25 Apr. 2022
  • Both offer blistering acceleration and sharper handling than the standard model.
    Eric Stafford, Car and Driver, 19 Feb. 2021
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“Confidence man.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/confidence%20man. Accessed 21 Jan. 2025.

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