delude
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"To cheat, trick, deceive, delude with false pretences; to impose upon, take in, hoax."
From BBC ● Sep. 29, 2026
"People delude themselves that the human race is so clever that we'll come up with some wonderful technology that'll make this all go away."
From Barron's ● Aug. 3, 2026
Some people delude themselves into thinking they’re financially independent when they’re not.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 12, 2026
“We can delude ourselves for a while that this is not a real cost, but we’re only fooling ourselves at the end of the day,” he says.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 23, 2026
He could no longer delude Kira into thinking this was an ordinary journey.
From "Messenger" by Lois Lowry
She concocts a fantasy, one that Arthur deludes himself into believing.
From Salon ● Oct. 12, 2024
He deludes himself while showing us his true colors.
From New York Times ● Jan. 19, 2018
Perhaps May also deludes herself that the present moment is especially propitious for a renewal of “our special relationship”.
From The Guardian ● Feb. 14, 2017
What he means, I think, is that an electric bike deludes you into thinking you can go anywhere you like.
From Slate ● May 11, 2010
He loves her from convenience; she rules him since she no longer deludes herself about him.
From Boris Lensky by Ossip Schubin
Still, if the claim that those of unwavering confidence could win through their own hard work and talent are true, such seemingly deluded self-assurance may have been the key to their success.
From Slate ● Nov. 13, 2026
Pauling may never be fully vindicated, but neither was he simply deluded.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 7, 2026
Anderson’s film is nowhere near as bad, but it’s as deluded about reality and self-important about its perspective as “Crash” was.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 17, 2026
But he is also so paranoid, deluded and consumed with self-loathing that throughout this caustically witty novel we can’t help but root for him every step of the way.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 2, 2026
I pity this man’s deluded and diseased mind.
From "Native Son" by Richard Wright
“People say I was deluding myself that I could do the job at my age. My answer to that is: I was doing the job.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 14, 2026
If he really believes that the job of making peace is done, then he is deluding himself.
From BBC ● Oct. 14, 2025
But if they really believe they can stay in these two separate lanes, they’re deluding themselves.
From Slate ● May 23, 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
Finally, the census of 1790 provided unmistakable evidence that those antislavery advocates who believed that the future was on their side were deluding themselves.
From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis
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