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But even as skeptics label Strategy and the DAT model as a house of cards built on financial chicanery, others view them as early leaders in an emerging category of crypto banks.—
Jeff John Roberts, Fortune, 3 Dec. 2025
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The tale away from the playing field in recent years has been dizzying, one of soaring costs and debts, of quirks and chicanery unseen elsewhere.—
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The story then unfolded through the subterfuge of the princess and the care of Morton.—
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Unlike the confrontational drudgery of couples therapy — and aiming to avoid the confrontational finality of divorce — this approach relies on subterfuge.—
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Of course, many Americans vote early and have since the COVID-19 crisis, so his fearmongering about Election Day trickery is pointless.—
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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.—
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Our guide gives you the best strategies to handle lying and deception at every stage and smart ways to teach your child the value of honesty.—
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The lying, the calls for political violence, the nonstop gaslighting just cannot become anything approaching normal.—
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There was much more to it than that, including some skullduggery along the way.—
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The music industry is a notoriously cutthroat business, rife with tales of backstabbing and skullduggery.—
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Even with the old four-corner chicane removed to quicken the final sector, this remains one of the sport’s most physical tests with drivers often shedding 4 to 8 pounds over the two-hour race.—
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Not to mention Piastri’s overtake on Norris last year at Monza into the second chicane.—
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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.—
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So how do obliquity variations affect the seasons on a planet?—
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That sense of fraudulence seeped into other areas of her life, beyond pageantry.—
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If fraudulence signals are shared across departments, a candidate who bypassed one check could be caught by another.—
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“Mountebankery.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/mountebankery. Accessed 13 Jan. 2026.
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