delude

Example Sentences

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“We delude ourselves, too, if we think that power will accumulate safely and only in the hands of dispassionate ‘people . . . found in agencies.’”

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 22, 2026

Let's not delude ourselves, we're looking at human extinction, the death of eight billion people, and there's no way that people will be able to survive in anything like an increase of 5º centigrade.

From Salon • Oct. 24, 2024

His goal was to delude the rest of us.

From Seattle Times • Aug. 2, 2023

“When we name the man and not the movement, we delude ourselves into thinking that when the man goes away, so does the movement,” Frydl said.

From Washington Post • Oct. 16, 2022

That was the reason the casino bothered to list the wheel’s most recent spins: to help gamblers to delude themselves.

From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis