Sentence examples for off the hoax from inspiring English sources
As for the spiritualists, their vain hope that wireless communication can reach the dead fuels seances run by opportunistic frauds (ironically, using wireless transmission to pull off the hoax), one of whom Serge spectacularly unmasks.
Taken together, the consistency of technique used across all the Piltdown Man fragments suggests that a single person pulled off the hoax, the team reports today in Royal Society Open Science.
A recording of the hoax call is here.
Te'o says he is a victim of the hoax. .
Jay-Z has retired once, and if he were to stage the same stunt, double jeopardy would nullify double indemnity; Hova would float off into the hoax-y blue yonder as Brooklyn's version of Balloon Boy.
A book generally makes the bulk of its money in its first year in print, but one that Mr. Shepard published 23 years ago is really paying off only now: "The Hoax," Clifford Irving's account of his faking an autobiography of Howard Hughes, is being made into a movie.
I was also reluctant to ask my own college to pay for me to travel to Tokyo to pull off this hoax.
Activist pranksters the Yes Men pulled off a hoax at the Chamber's expense, sending out a quite convincing press release saying that the organization was reversing its position on climate change legislation, and then holding a press conference on the subject that only ended when an actual Chamber spokesman showed up to interrupt.
"Battalion Chief Willie Bailey with Fairfax County Fire and Rescue told the News-Press that Gore attempted forcible entry into the mosque, threw devices into the parking lot of the mosque and set off a hoax explosive device in the mosque's parking lot.
One was a classifier based off the 2015 hoax detector based on user reports, and another was the machine learning classifier built specifically for detecting clickbait via computer algorithm.
Though many theories have been floated (that it's a hoax, that he paid off the Recording Academy, that his wealthy family history explains everything), the Grammys tell The Huffington Post that everything about Walser's nomination is on the up-and-up.
