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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
hoax .
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Examples
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Mainstream journalists have been hoaxed thousands of times.
Robert Weller: Why Was the Week-Long Amina Hoax Possible? Robert Weller 2011
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In the midst of this, Pinfold suspects he is going insane, and when he discovers he is being hoaxed by enemies among the passengers, he is relieved: “He might be unpopular; he might be ridiculous; but he was not mad.”
Henry’s Demons Patrick Cockburn 2011
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I watched as some scientists and other quite credible people allowed themselves to get hoaxed in Canada.
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Mainstream journalists have been hoaxed thousands of times.
Robert Weller: Why Was the Week-Long Amina Hoax Possible? Robert Weller 2011
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Sounds like in the story here today there are some folks quite ready to get themselves hoaxed, assuming the perpretators aren't themselves.
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Sounds like in the story here today there are some folks quite ready to get themselves hoaxed, assuming the perpretators aren't themselves.
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I watched as some scientists and other quite credible people allowed themselves to get hoaxed in Canada.
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Yuri? lol … clever, bloke that has hoaxed the world for years … any magician can replicate those feats of ‘psychic power’ …
7/7 Bombs – Police To Blame SHOCK! « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2010
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They seemed to be very slow to conclude what * has* to be concluded eventually: the most likely explanation amongst possible explanations is that someone hoaxed them.
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They seemed to be very slow to conclude what * has* to be concluded eventually: the most likely explanation amongst possible explanations is that someone hoaxed them.
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