Example sentences for: faked

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  • Just as McCartney started rumors of his death by appearing on the Abbey Road cover without shoes and on Sergeant Pepper wearing an armband marked "OPD" (alleged to mean Officially Pronounced Dead), so did 2Pac, on his new album, slyly adopt the name "Makaveli"--like Machiavelli, who, according to 2Pac's rapping confrere Chuck D, faked his own death to fool his enemies--and pose on the cover in a crucifixion pose, suggesting he intended a resurrection.

  • Plot holes abound in this Fugitive knockoff about a woman (Ashley Judd) framed by her husband for his (faked) murder.

  • Most authorities in these matters [cf. Darwin Ortiz's Gambling Scams , p. 189] agree that the broads tossed or faked in three-card monte [XXII,3,15, item 5] are not specifically the queens; rather, the reference is to pasteboards that are wider than the standard deck (viz. pokersized cards vs. bridge-sized), which makes cheating by sleight-of-hand easier in that game.

  • Benford's Law, by comparing the digits in a list of numbers to the outcome that probability would predict, can identify cases where a series of numbers (tax returns, accounting records) may have been faked.

  • "Murder Isn't Always a Crime" claims the tag line for the new movie Double Jeopardy , in which Libby Parsons (Ashley Judd) is framed by her husband in his faked murder.


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