deceive

Example Sentences

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Now they are able to do more damage using artificial intelligence to simulate fake grassroots opposition to clean air measures, and they are surreptitiously using the identities of real people to deceive regulators.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 1, 2026

“This echo chamber was used to deceive you.”

From Slate • Apr. 1, 2026

It was judged on a 3:2 vote that Ramsey's "left foot appears to slip as he goes past the keeper" and that it "wasn't an attempt to deceive the referee".

From BBC • Mar. 17, 2026

It is worse than hypocrisy, because they seek to deceive not only others but themselves.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 23, 2026

He also knew that such postcards were another Nazi tactic to deceive the Jews.

From "Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow" by Susan Campbell Bartoletti