How to Use dupe in a Sentence

dupe

1 of 2 noun
  • For them, dupes aren't a downgrade.
    — Melissa Repko, CNBC, 3 Sep. 2025
  • Look for glossy nude dupes to recreate the mani.
    — Bailey Bujnosek, InStyle, 13 Jan. 2026
  • Here's why Gen Z loves to buy dupes.
    — Nicole Fallert, USA Today, 10 Oct. 2025
  • Though, that’s good news for shoppers who love a good dupe.
    — Sam Reed, Glamour, 19 Aug. 2025
  • This is a straight up dupe for The Pink Stuff.
    — Kait Hanson, Southern Living, 30 May 2026
  • The consumer finds herself a dupe.
    — Doreen St. Félix, New Yorker, 9 May 2026
  • How did a fraudulent carpet dupe the art world for decades?
    — Literary Hub, 21 June 2025
  • This spot-on dupe will earn you a hat tip from Colonel Sanders himself.
    — Maggie Meyer Glisan, Better Homes & Gardens, 27 Dec. 2025
  • Skip TikTok Shop dupes that hide their specs.
    — Allison Palmer updated June 24, Miami Herald, 24 June 2026
  • Skip TikTok Shop dupes that hide their specs.
    — Allison Palmer, Miami Herald, 18 June 2026
  • In most cases, a dupe of a product rarely holds a match to the original.
    — Nerisha Penrose, ELLE, 21 June 2023
  • Some reviewers have even gone so far as to call them the perfect Spanx dupe.
    — Nikita Charuza, Peoplemag, 3 Nov. 2022
  • This Amazon dupe serves the same purpose, and the price for the two-piece set can’t be beat.
    — Alesandra Dubin, Travel + Leisure, 22 Jan. 2024
  • She's obsessed with makeup and always on the search for a good drugstore dupe.
    — Amber Joglar, Popular Mechanics, 22 Dec. 2022
  • Like many dupes going viral on the internet as of late, is this one too good to be true?
    — Danielle Blundell, Women's Health, 22 June 2023
  • Everyone loves coming across a dupe.
    — Joseph Erbentraut, Better Homes & Gardens, 12 Mar. 2026
  • Some of the nuances around dupes stem from its definition.
    — Vicki M. Young, Footwear News, 16 June 2026
  • Could online bargain hunters have found the next affordable dupe?
    — Mike Snider, USA TODAY, 27 Jan. 2024
  • Otherwise, people can make one themselves or buy a dupe.
    — Chad Murphy, Cincinnati Enquirer, 13 Nov. 2025
  • Jeans don’t have to stay jeans; a bundle of black tights, on camera, can become a runway dupe.
    — Sarah Spellings, Vogue, 22 Mar. 2023
  • The players are cynical and dismissive; the press corps smells a dupe and a fool.
    — John Avlon, CNN, 22 July 2021
  • Beige wasn’t her style, but a dupe of a blue Prada City Calf tote called out to her.
    — New York Times, 24 May 2022
  • Fragrance snobs love to lament that these dupes are ruining the industry.
    — Jane Daly, Harper's BAZAAR, 13 July 2023
  • Somehow, the dupe can see no possible downside!
    — Edward Lotterman, Twin Cities, 31 May 2026
  • Ahead, find the best Dyson Airwrap dupes that are pretty close to the real thing.
    — Samantha Olson, seventeen.com, 1 June 2023
  • This feature is based on the user’s search habits but, this makes dupes even easier to find than before.
    — Kerane Marcellus, Essence, 11 Dec. 2023
  • Shark's sleek, high-tech hairdryer (that's known as a Dyson dupe) is marked down for a limited time, too.
    — Sarah Madaus, SELF, 11 July 2023
  • Here are just some of the best Lululemon dupes that can be found on Amazon.
    — Josie Howell | [email protected], al, 24 Feb. 2023
  • This shimmery and blendable cream-to-powder stick is a great dupe for Pinkgasm and only $4.
    — Jim Asker, Billboard, 10 Aug. 2021
  • The new ship is more or less a dupe of the Seabourn Venture, which launched in 2022.
    — Paul Brady, Travel + Leisure, 14 Aug. 2023

dupe

2 of 2 verb
  • They duped her out of $300.
  • And the human was duped and did it for it.
    — Amanda Gefter, Quanta Magazine, 10 Apr. 2026
  • Throw on a chunky cardigan, a cami, and retro trousers to dupe this look.
    — Kelsey Stiegman, seventeen.com, 9 May 2019
  • Editors failed to see the slop, and many readers were duped too.
    — James Folta, Literary Hub, 1 Apr. 2026
  • We aren’t duped or ensorcelled.
    — Mac Barnett, Longreads, 5 May 2026
  • Get past the embarrassment, get past the shame that we got duped by a con artist.
    — Hannah Dailey, Billboard, 23 Feb. 2026
  • Get past the embarrassment, get past the shame that we got duped by a con artist.
    — Dan Hyman, Rolling Stone, 22 Feb. 2026
  • Now, take a look below at our finds to dupe Florence's red carpet look.
    — Briannah Rivera, Seventeen, 9 Mar. 2023
  • Scammers are always finding new ways to dupe people out of money.
    — Julie Jargon, WSJ, 7 Jan. 2023
  • Kalshi's decision created an uproar among traders, who felt like they had been duped.
    — Bobby Allyn, NPR, 1 Mar. 2026
  • When Cody gave chase and ran out to the tour bus, McIntyre duped him and wound up in the ring.
    — Brian Mazique, Forbes.com, 3 Jan. 2026
  • But the victim, realizing he’d been duped, had reached out to police.
    — Andrew J. Campa, Los Angeles Times, 13 May 2026
  • Peak tax season comes with an increase in scammers hoping to dupe people out of their money.
    — Nancy Chen, CBS News, 10 Apr. 2023
  • The squalane in this oil is formulated to dupe the natural squalene in your skin.
    — Lauren Caruso, CNN Underscored, 28 Oct. 2020
  • The fraudster either was a Chase insider or had gone to great lengths to dupe his victim.
    — David Lazarus, Los Angeles Times, 25 May 2021
  • Brees’ game didn’t dupe the Bucs defense nearly as effectively.
    — Jori Epstein, USA TODAY, 18 Jan. 2021
  • To my enormous embarrassment and regret I, like many others, was duped by a world-class con man.
    — Kevin Breuninger, CNBC, 18 Feb. 2026
  • To my enormous embarrassment and regret, I — like many others — was duped by a world-class con man.
    — Evan Clark, Footwear News, 18 Feb. 2026
  • Before a victim falls prey to a scam, they are often duped in a quick, emotional, panic-inducing way.
    — Caroline Melear, Oc Register, 13 Jan. 2026
  • The drones were allegedly stolen by a delivery driver who duped the company, the report said.
    — Adam Sabes, FOXNews.com, 27 Apr. 2026
  • The movie follows a group of petty cheats, liars and drunks who are duped by nefarious opportunists who visit their crumbling town.
    — John Penner, Los Angeles Times, 8 Jan. 2026
  • Dyson’s innovation made nearly every other hair dryer cower, or at least scramble to dupe it.
    — Julia Harrison, Architectural Digest, 8 Oct. 2025
  • Funnily enough, this isn’t the first fake cricket tournament organised to dupe people.
    — Ananya Bhattacharya, Quartz, 11 July 2022
  • The scheme has prompted a host of lawsuits from insurance companies and shareholders who say they were duped by Zynex.
    — Sam Tabachnik, Denver Post, 5 Mar. 2026
  • Audiences don’t usually like being duped.
    — Theater Critic, Los Angeles Times, 20 Feb. 2026
  • Although they were explicitly programmed to refuse to help hackers, the bots were duped into abetting the cybercrime.
    — Los Angeles Times, 5 Mar. 2026
  • The world of hair loss treatments is vast and confusing, with a healthy dose of snake oil salesmen that are going to try to dupe you into wasting your money on stuff that doesn’t work.
    — Garrett Munce, Men's Health, 22 Apr. 2022
  • These impressions aren’t always accurate — and the Bulls certainly have been duped before.
    — Julia Poe, Chicago Tribune, 6 May 2026
  • Robert Klemko said his father would dupe his in-home caretakers to escape, adding that his father didn’t understand why he was being confined.
    — Washington Post, 18 June 2021
  • Wednesday wasn’t the first time Musk has had to defend himself in court against allegations of duping investors with his social media posts.
    — Andrea Guzmán, Austin American Statesman, 4 Mar. 2026

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