duped
Example Sentences
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Although they were explicitly programmed to refuse to help hackers, the bots were duped into abetting the cybercrime.
From Los Angeles Times
A growing number of African countries have in recent months begun to discover that their citizens have been duped into fighting for the Russian army, and either killed or captured on the battlefield.
From Barron's
The sophisticated Griswold worried that too many intelligent citizens were being duped by what he considered ghostly nonsense.
From Literature
How could one of the most sophisticated private-lending firms in the world be so badly duped?
At the crux of the case was whether Rogers knowingly attempted to advance China’s interests or was unwittingly duped into providing information to spies he thought were academics.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
