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  • noun Plural form of hoax.
  • verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of hoax.

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Examples

  • Editors, newspapers, and even TV are getting caught in hoaxes every day.

    Man vs. Crocodile vs. 2009

  • Editors, newspapers, and even TV are getting caught in hoaxes every day.

    Man vs. Crocodile vs. 2009

  • One of the reasons there's so few musical hoaxes is that the field is fairly limited: you can either create fake antiquity, or fake avant-garde.

    Archive 2007-02-01 Matthew Guerrieri 2007

  • One of the reasons there's so few musical hoaxes is that the field is fairly limited: you can either create fake antiquity, or fake avant-garde.

    I tried to fake it; I don't mind saying, I just can't make it Matthew Guerrieri 2007

  • One of the more interesting internet hoaxes is the elaborately done web log of John Titor, Time Traveller.

    December 2003 2003

  • One of the more interesting internet hoaxes is the elaborately done web log of John Titor, Time Traveller.

    LINK: A Time Traveller's Blog 2003

  • While Robertson’s outrageous comments of late do lend itself to this kind of satire, the power of blogs to perpetuate rumor and hoaxes is growing.

    The Blog Rumor Heard Around the World – Blaming Katrina « Lorelle on WordPress 2005

  • In spite of bogus bomb threats to schools and businesses, police found no explosives and said they suspected the hoaxes were the work of pranksters and not necessarily right-wingers trying disrupt elections.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1994

  • These conservative undercover "hoaxes" are best understood as an attempt to make their fantasies real.

    Peter Hart: Pimps and Prostitutes... Again? Peter Hart 2011

  • While conservative and establishment pundits still dominate TV and radio, progressive dominance of the Internet has made it easier for media critics and bloggers to instantly rebut the kind of hoaxes and smears that so damaged Gore and Kerry.

    Jeff Cohen: Big Election Winner: Indy Media 2008

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