fooled
Example Sentences
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What to know: Don’t be fooled by the title of this drama, co-produced by Britain’s Sky Television—you’re not going to get guns and bombs.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 19, 2026
As George W. Bush famously said, “Fool me once, shame on me; fool me twice … won’t get fooled again.”
From Salon ● Sep. 17, 2026
This stuff has been designed intentionally to mimic human beings, and we are very, very easily fooled.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 27, 2026
Eliza’s creator aimed to fool people into seeing a machine as humanlike then show them how they’d been fooled.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 19, 2026
“Daniel laughed and told them, ‘Don’t be fooled!
From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver
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