duping

verb

present participle of dupe
as in tricking
to cause to believe what is untrue we were duped into thinking the dummy was a real alien

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Recent Examples of duping In February last year, a federal lawsuit charging Sun with duping investors was paused before being settled for a $10-million fine. — Bernard Condon, Los Angeles Times, 1 July 2026 Jurk was almost immediately called out for duping Castillo into touching the gloves, a sign of respect, at the beginning of the fight. — Ryan Morik, FOXNews.com, 16 May 2026 Or the result of a spoiler once again duping POTUS into another quagmire? — Michael Loria, USA Today, 9 May 2026 Spoofing can override legitimate GPS signals, duping a navigation system into showing the boat as off course and even sailing over land, as the video below shows. — Michael Kan, PC Magazine, 28 Apr. 2026 Scammers posing as law-enforcement or bank officials used fraudulent websites disguised as legitimate investment platforms to defraud victims across the globe by duping them into sending cryptocurrency, according to an FBI agent's affidavit. — ABC News, 23 Apr. 2026 But behind the scenes, AllHere was heading for financial collapse, and its founder, Joanna Smith-Griffin, was arrested on federal charges in the fall of 2024 for allegedly duping investors. — Douglas Hanks, Miami Herald, 21 Apr. 2026 This isn’t the first time that Musk has been dragged into court to defend himself against allegations of duping investors with his social media posts. — Staff, Austin American Statesman, 20 Mar. 2026 The Office of the United States Trade Representative (USTR) has released its annual Review of Notorious Markets for Counterfeiting and Piracy, highlighting online and physical markets that engage in duping shoppers and intellectual property theft—and some familiar names have made the list. — Kate Nishimura, Sourcing Journal, 5 Mar. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for duping
  1. tricking
  2. fooling
  3. deceiving
Verb
  • Football is all about engaño (trickery) — looking one way and passing the other, feinting to go left and swiftly moving right, manipulating the opposition and tricking them to open up those little spaces.
    — Xavi, New York Times, 19 July 2026
  • What’s far more eloquent is the episode with the witch Circe (a terrific Samantha Morton), whose habit of tricking and transforming men into animals is rendered in evocatively physical, body-horror-esque imagery.
    — Alison Willmore, Vulture, 15 July 2026
Definition of tricking
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  • Throughout all the commotion, Romelu Lukaku acted as decoy, holding on to the ball, fooling everyone, including the TV producer, who pulled up a graphic showing his recent penalty record.
    — Geir Jordet, New York Times, 15 July 2026
  • Speaking on Harvard Business School’s The Founder Mindset podcast, hosted by senior lecturer and serial entrepreneur Reza Satchu, the Shark Tank investor argued that anyone trying to balance a young company against the rest of their life is fooling themselves.
    — Sydney Lake, Fortune, 17 June 2026
Definition of fooling
Verb
  • All the wig and makeup work put into deceiving their people isn’t needed in the first place.
    — Michael Ashley, Forbes.com, 22 July 2026
  • Those figures, though, are a bit deceiving; infant and childhood mortality dragged them down dramatically.
    — Adam Cohen, Oklahoman, 30 June 2026
Definition of deceiving

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