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Example sentences for: hoax

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And how would one classify the brilliant hoax Avedon perpetrated in the pages of Harper's Bazaar in 1962--a series of garish, hectic, faux-tabloid shots of comedian Mike Nichols and model Suzy Parker cavorting through Europe?
Falun Gong Takes Off Again After Bomb Hoax"-- William Vehrs
Sure, they can point out that the most familiar conservative proposal--Dick Armey's Flat Tax--is a hoax.
If she knew her husband was going to continue to philander and agreed to help him pretend that he had reformed and become a good husband, she has been a party to a hoax.
Lewinsky" (though it didn't say why) before acknowledging that it "could have been a hoax.