deceive

Example Sentences

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Now they are able to do more damage using artificial intelligence to simulate fake grassroots opposition to clean air measures, and they are surreptitiously using the identities of real people to deceive regulators.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 1, 2026

“This echo chamber was used to deceive you.”

From Slate • Apr. 1, 2026

It is worse than hypocrisy, because they seek to deceive not only others but themselves.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 23, 2026

"There is no fraud, no intent to deceive, nothing whatsoever criminal or remotely a basis to allege mortgage fraud," her lawyers wrote.

From BBC • Jan. 21, 2026

They don’t deceive you with thrills and trick endings.

From "The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy