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
Claire still can delude herself into believing that Madame “loves” and “adores” them.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 28, 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
I’m trying to embrace the fact that everyone deludes themselves about some things.
From Slate ● Apr. 27, 2016
Is it possible that of religious things only the æsthetic side is vital, universal, is what gives or seems to give a meaning, deludes us into a belief in some spirituality?
From The Spirit of Rome by Vernon Lee
Marra also warned against "negative cowardly briefings", saying those who believed they could win votes were "dangerously deluded".
From BBC ● Aug. 12, 2026
Pauling may never be fully vindicated, but neither was he simply deluded.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 7, 2026
If that’s the case, he is more deluded than he seems to think the rest of us are.
From Slate ● Apr. 30, 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
He had been forged, by that deluded old teacher, into a sort of Pasteur or Curie or patient discoverer of insulin.
From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White
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
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
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