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Discover LudwigThe phrase "perpetrate a fraud" is grammatically correct and commonly used in written English.
It means to commit or carry out a deceitful or dishonest act, usually for personal gain. Example: The CEO was arrested for perpetrating a fraud scheme, in which he embezzled millions of dollars from the company's funds.
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Pay money simply to perpetrate a fraud?
To report that this session produced earth-shattering news would be to perpetrate a fraud.
Two former partners said that the plan "was designed and conceived to perpetrate a fraud on the firm's former partners".
The case against the banks accuses them of conspiring with the family to help perpetrate a fraud.
"They demonstrated that this company had set out to perpetrate a fraud on the entire medical community," he told me.
UDOVITCH -- It is bizarre that we live in a culture that would annually and thoughtlessly perpetrate a fraud on small children in the form of department store Santas.
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It's almost like perpetrating a fraud.
Mr. Hamdani was not perpetrating a fraud, as implied in a New York Post article about which the Hamdanis remain bitter.
About 56,000 people are caught every year perpetrating a fraud, which is about 1.1% of those receiving benefits.
Bud Bunce, director of communications for the archdiocese, dismissed the suggestion that the church was perpetrating a fraud.
" Others reproach him for perpetrating a fraud: "It is a disservice to the arts world to present this digital creation as a genuine film of Nijinsky.
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