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deception

[dih-sep-shuhn] / dɪˈsɛp ʃən /




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“He is a passionate believer in fair play and honesty and has no room for dishonesty or deception in any aspect of life,” Barker continued.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 22, 2026

The details of the deception are a little in the weeds, but Wedgewood ultimately came clean.

From Slate ● Oct. 22, 2026

His film is a self-reflexive study of the inability to act as people expect — of masking and deception.

From Salon ● Oct. 17, 2026

Still, “the colleagues who facilitated his ouster accuse him of a degree of deception that is untenable for any executive and dangerous for a leader of such a transformative technology.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026

The suggestion he’d been a liar, with his family as co-conspirators, egging him on with his deception and denial.

From "A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age" by Matt Richtel

As “Love Island” alumnus Rob Rausch frequently reminded us and himself, whatever deceptions he committed were all part of playing a game.

From Salon ● Jun. 20, 2026

After his father’s death, Mr. Junod goes on a sort of genealogical quest, excavating Lou’s double and triple lives—mistresses, deceptions, suspicious deaths, ugly secrets—and more distant family history.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 5, 2026

From small social excuses to deliberate deceptions, lying is something most of us do, often without stopping to think about why.

From BBC ● Jan. 13, 2026

This time it was Elsie's failing health that kept him out of prison and he stayed quiet until her death in 2002 before the deceptions dangerously escalated.

From BBC ● Dec. 31, 2025

He didn’t think twice about the easy deceptions of Monday morning.

From "The Dead and the Gone" by Susan Beth Pfeffer


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