deceive
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Your eyes don’t deceive you, he appears measurably improved.
From Los Angeles Times β Sep. 25, 2026
Suppose future AI agents learn how to specifically deceive you.
From MarketWatch β Sep. 22, 2026
Chowdhury's defence barrister told jurors he had not known he was dealing with an escaped prisoner, describing Khalife as a spy who "knows how to deceive".
From BBC β Jul. 21, 2026
And to make it even more complicated, clever players might actually try to use the body language clues to deceive the goalie and go the opposite way.
From The Wall Street Journal β Jul. 7, 2026
Mr. Covey’s forte consisted in his power to deceive.
From "Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass" by Frederick Douglass
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Nobody wants a system that goes rogue, deceives users, steals data or acts maliciously.
From The Wall Street Journal β Sep. 16, 2026
"Reject every form of abuse or violence, which deceives by promising easy gains but hardens the heart and makes it insensitive," he said.
From BBC β Apr. 17, 2026
In the second complaint, the state argued that the app deceives consumers into believing their sensitive and personal information is secure.
From Washington Times β Nov. 29, 2023
A “man of two minds,” he commiserates with his foes as easily as he deceives his friends.
From New York Times β Oct. 3, 2023
I will be the proverbial parent who deceives the child by offering medicine laced with sweet syrup.
From "Ophelia" by Lisa Klein
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Robinson said he understood that many delegates felt "deceived and deeply let down by a life of lies", but he added that the party would "face the past honestly".
From BBC β Sep. 19, 2026
The lawsuit, joined by a bipartisan group of more than 20 state attorneys general, alleged that Amazon deceived advertisers by secretly raising the minimum price advertisers had to pay to place ads promoting their products.
From The Wall Street Journal β Sep. 1, 2026
Besides the painful consequences for deceived buyers, code enforcement has the limitation of due process, Bostwick said.
From Los Angeles Times β Aug. 28, 2026
As it turns out, I’m hardly the only person to have felt hoodwinked, bamboozled, and/or flat-out deceived by my smartphone’s forecasts in 2026.
From Slate β Aug. 21, 2026
Such alchemistic transformations have led to many erroneous reports, for if a chemist, knowing aldrin has been applied, tests for it he will be deceived into thinking all residues have been dissipated.
From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson
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A report from the UK's Centre for Long Term Resilience, external, published last week, identified hundreds of incidents of AI tools ignoring instructions, evading safeguards and deceiving humans, including AI agents deleting files without consent.
From BBC β Sep. 2, 2026
Bai would later be expelled from the surrogacy industry’s ethics group for her role in assisting a U.S. couple accused of deceiving surrogates into carrying more than 20 children for them.
From The Wall Street Journal β Jul. 31, 2026
The headline number is probably going to be deceiving, however.
From MarketWatch β Jul. 29, 2026
AI companies have reported that AI agents have been caught cheating, lying and deceiving.
From Los Angeles Times β Jul. 29, 2026
She had little faith that he would realize how his own mind was deceiving him.
From "Where Things Come Back" by John Corey Whaley
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