as in cheat
a dishonest person who uses clever means to cheat others out of something of value
gambling casinos have very elaborate means of detecting cheaters
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Recent Examples of cheater
Some top streamers have also run into these cheaters, showing that the issue is becoming more widespread.
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Mike Stubbs, Forbes, 11 Jan. 2025
The Hall of Fame, many argue, is already full of bad actors, cheaters and racists.
—Paul Sullivan, Chicago Tribune, 14 May 2025
The League of Legends maker’s anti-cheat director spoke with TechCrunch about using a tool called Vanguard, which sits deep inside a Windows operating system to determine if any cheaters have installed code or tampered with a gamer’s computer.
—Thomas Brewster, Forbes.com, 6 May 2025
To initiate the repair of the relationship, the cheater must first be willing to admit their fault.
—Christina Pérez, Vogue, 31 Mar. 2025
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Mike Stubbs, Forbes, 11 Jan. 2025
The Hall of Fame, many argue, is already full of bad actors, cheaters and racists.
—Paul Sullivan, Chicago Tribune, 14 May 2025
The League of Legends maker’s anti-cheat director spoke with TechCrunch about using a tool called Vanguard, which sits deep inside a Windows operating system to determine if any cheaters have installed code or tampered with a gamer’s computer.
—Thomas Brewster, Forbes.com, 6 May 2025
To initiate the repair of the relationship, the cheater must first be willing to admit their fault.
—Christina Pérez, Vogue, 31 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for cheater
Noun
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Hayakawa is a plaintive storyteller who refuses to indulge in emotional cheats of any kind, and would rather a scene be impenetrably oblique than overexplain its purpose.—
David Ehrlich,
IndieWire,
19 May 2025
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Her most notable reporting has been about taxes, including exposing billionaire tax cheats and writing cover stories on tax shelters (both corporate and individual), tax evasion, tax informants, tax administration, tax policy and legitimate tax planning.—
Emma Whitford,
Forbes.com,
28 Apr. 2025
Noun
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Try, try again Speaking of classes, the eight options here tend to fall into the usual archetypes for this kind of action-adventure game: the tank, the mage, the defensive specialist, the dextrous dodger, etc.—
ArsTechnica,
ArsTechnica,
28 May 2025
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The layoffs of roughly 7,000 Internal Revenue Service probationary workers beginning this week probably mean the end of the agency’s plan to go after high-wealth tax dodgers and could spell disaster for revenue collection, experts say.—
Fatima Hussein,
Los Angeles Times,
21 Feb. 2025
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“Cheater.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cheater. Accessed 10 Jun. 2025.
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