deluding

Example Sentences

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"She must have known. If she didn't know, she was deluding herself, because she was there," he said.

From BBC • May 20, 2026

There could be “huge social ruptures where one side sees the other as very cruelly exploiting AI while the other side sees the first as deluding itself into thinking there’s sentience there,” he said.

From Salon • Jun. 10, 2025

“But I think really they will be deluding themselves if they think that that bodes well for the next general election.”

From Washington Times • Jul. 21, 2023

Carrigan: The dinner scene between Hank and the Raven, when the Raven is just baffled that Hank is deluding himself into not being responsible for Cristobal’s death.

From Los Angeles Times • May 24, 2023

She spent her life weaving it, in comfortably deluding me, that I might wear the lie as proof against all injury.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson