How to Use fraudulent in a Sentence

fraudulent

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  • Corrupt leaders were chosen in a fraudulent election.
  • Schmoke says that claims that the book was fraudulent stung Moore.
    — Taylor Antrim, Vogue, 18 July 2023
  • All were charged with theft using a fraudulent card, a felony.
    — Los Angeles Times, 8 Feb. 2023
  • Perhaps the clearest sign the image is fraudulent is the message’s length.
    — Nate Trela, USA TODAY, 17 Jan. 2023
  • Officials charged the six suspects with at least 50 fraudulent rentals and thefts.
    — Garfield Hylton, Orlando Sentinel, 6 Apr. 2023
  • As further proof of the scam, her credit card statement showed what appeared to be $2,000 in fraudulent charges.
    — Kimberlee Speakman, Peoplemag, 18 June 2024
  • But the researchers said there was no reason to believe the final vote totals in five key states were fraudulent.
    — Josh Dawsey, Washington Post, 17 Mar. 2023
  • Bug zappers are one of the favorite products of fraudulent seller farms.
    — Lauren Goode, WIRED, 28 Mar. 2024
  • That’s all the information a thief needs to create new checks and make fraudulent payments.
    — Liz Weston, San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 Jan. 2024
  • No fraudulent charges have yet been reported on the man’s credit card.
    — cleveland, 7 Dec. 2022
  • No money was lost as the transaction was flagged as fraudulent.
    — Graydon Megan, Chicago Tribune, 24 Mar. 2023
  • Knowing how to identify a scam and who is most likely to be duped is the first step in combatting these fraudulent schemes.
    — Amanda Musa, CNN, 12 Oct. 2024
  • The resident notified the IRS that the filing was fraudulent.
    — Graydon Megan, Chicago Tribune, 1 May 2023
  • That date was a reference to the year López Obrador came within 0.56% of the vote of winning the presidency and denounced his loss as fraudulent.
    — Time, 28 Nov. 2022
  • They were accused of conspiring to defraud Atlanta-area banks out of more than $30 million in fraudulent loans in a scheme that went on for years.
    — Diana Dasrath, NBC News, 22 Nov. 2022
  • The city rejects the vast majority of claims, some of which officials say are fraudulent, but claimants may appeal in court.
    — St. John Barned-Smith, San Francisco Chronicle, 30 Mar. 2023
  • The warehouse keeper at the time, John Thomson, who was in charge of all loans and pledges but also in league with the five fraudulent directors, hid the company’s books and fled the country.
    — Amy Froide, Fortune, 28 Dec. 2022
  • But the Trump team argued Monday night that the president was not in the position to deceive anyone about whether the election was fraudulent.
    — Perry Stein, Washington Post, 24 Oct. 2023
  • But there’s wide agreement in the industry that nurses with fraudulent degrees need to be rooted out.
    — Michael Hill, Sun Sentinel, 1 Mar. 2023
  • If Beard does strike this deal, she will be forced to repay all the proceeds obtained through her fraudulent schemes and surrender any of the assets acquired as a result.
    — Mario Abad, Robb Report, 31 May 2023
  • The department’s woes worsened when a state audit found that at least $10 billion in claims paid by the state were fraudulent (that figure later grew to at least $20 billion).
    — Melanie Mason, Los Angeles Times, 18 Apr. 2023
  • Of course, Trump continues to call mail ballots fraudulent.
    — Abc News, ABC News, 30 Oct. 2024
  • According to data shared by the company, the amount of fraudulent ad requests from the schemes taking place now has completely dropped off.
    — Matt Burgess, WIRED, 4 Oct. 2023
  • It was augmented by a fraudulent 1998 paper tying the MMR (measles/mumps/rubella) vaccine to autism.
    — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 4 July 2024
  • Checks are largely governed by state law through the Uniform Commercial Code, which gives consumers up to a year to inform their bank of a fraudulent or altered check.
    — Susan Tompor, Detroit Free Press, 28 Mar. 2024
  • However, Riley sued the company, claiming that the note was forged and fraudulent.
    — Rebecca Aizin, Peoplemag, 23 May 2024
  • In the eight months since Musk bought Twitter in October 2022, the platform has increasingly been home to fraudulent accounts.
    — WIRED, 26 July 2023
  • Nearly a quarter of this bad debt was attributed to the non-payment of rent due to fraudulent applications.
    — Tyler Christiansen, Forbes, 16 Sep. 2024
  • An arriving officer talked to the woman, who said fraudulent claims were being made against her.
    — John Benson, cleveland, 28 Dec. 2022
  • Destroying ballots, vote-buying, voting multiple times and submitting fraudulent votes or registrations are all election crimes, with penalties spanning hefty fines to prison time.
    — Ella Lee, The Hill, 31 Oct. 2024

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