fooled

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Don’t be fooled by its breezy ’60s-analog vintage pop sound.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 19, 2026

Dan Loeb, the hedge-fund veteran famed for boardroom fights and valuing investing, admits Sam Bankman-Fried fooled him.

From MarketWatch • May 28, 2026

Wowed but not fooled, for everyone understood what was happening inside Muybridge’s machine: Still photos were displayed one after the other.

From Slate • May 25, 2026

But if she, a towering scholar of Yiddish literature, assumes the pose of a little old lady, don’t be fooled.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 22, 2026

But Elizabeth was not for a moment fooled, and did not, for as long as she lived with her, fail to despise her aunt.

From "Go Tell It on the Mountain" by James Baldwin