deception

Example Sentences

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The CIA also carried out a deception operation to throw the Iranians off the airman’s track.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 5, 2026

The agency engaged in a deception campaign inside Iran, reports said.

From BBC • Apr. 5, 2026

In Turner’s new Prime Video series, she plays a finance worker who gets caught up in a complex web of deception after her office is held up by thieves.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 30, 2026

As AI falsehoods explode across social media, often outpacing the capacity of professional fact-checkers, bogus detectors risk adding another layer of deception to an already fractured information ecosystem.

From Barron's • Mar. 30, 2026

His enemies made much of the deception, labeling Lincoln a coward and refusing to believe that such a plot existed in the first place.

From "Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever" by Bill O'Reilly