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the hoax
noun
Anything deliberately intended to deceive or trick.
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They will continue investigating the hoax.
The media quickly unravelled the hoax.
The hoax seemed particularly cruel.
THE HOAX Opens today nationwide.
"Engine failure," the hoax caller allegedly replies.
The hoax hypothesis can't be ruled out.
I was initially in the hoax camp.
The hoax was admirably thought out.
Like a yawn, the hoax is contagious.
But the hoax didn't end there.
He subsequently apologized for the hoax, however perfunctorily.
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