as in to fool
to cause to believe what is untrue
he went to great lengths to deceive his family about the nature of his new job at the mall
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Recent Examples of deceive
Further, those who perpetrate such heinous acts not only deceive and fabricate the facts of the abuse but further attempt to victimize survivors by concealing assets and collectability.
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Samantha Dos Santos, Baltimore Sun, 26 Apr. 2025
Jurors found Peters guilty in August for using someone else’s security badge to give an expert affiliated with My Pillow chief executive Mike Lindell access to the Mesa County election system and deceiving other officials about that person’s identity.
—Colleen Slevin, Twin Cities, 22 Apr. 2025
Stribling tried to deceive officers by saying Bailei was shot in a robbery, The Detroit News reported.
—Mike Stunson, Kansas City Star, 17 Apr. 2025
Neglecting The Kitchen Sink Your sink may look spick-and-span, but looks can be deceiving.
—Melissa Locker, Southern Living, 13 Apr. 2025
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Samantha Dos Santos, Baltimore Sun, 26 Apr. 2025
Jurors found Peters guilty in August for using someone else’s security badge to give an expert affiliated with My Pillow chief executive Mike Lindell access to the Mesa County election system and deceiving other officials about that person’s identity.
—Colleen Slevin, Twin Cities, 22 Apr. 2025
Stribling tried to deceive officers by saying Bailei was shot in a robbery, The Detroit News reported.
—Mike Stunson, Kansas City Star, 17 Apr. 2025
Neglecting The Kitchen Sink Your sink may look spick-and-span, but looks can be deceiving.
—Melissa Locker, Southern Living, 13 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for deceive
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Don’t let the name fool you: Apple TV+’s new science-fiction series Murderbot isn’t actually about a rampaging robot killing everything in sight, though Alexander Skarsgard’s SecUnit certainly ponders the idea from time to time.—
Erik Kain,
Forbes.com,
12 May 2025
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One common jailbreak involved fooling ChatGPT by asking it to role-play as a different AI—one that had no rules and was allowed to write phishing e-mails.—
Deni Ellis Béchard,
Scientific American,
7 May 2025
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The latest attacks follow recent patterns, mimicking Google’s own support to trick users into giving up credentials.—
Zak Doffman,
Forbes.com,
4 May 2025
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Elsewhere in the film, the Irish vampire Remmick, pursued by Choctaw vampire hunters, tricks his way into the protection of a pair of Klan members living near Clarksdale and turns them into creatures of the night.—
Adam Serwer,
The Atlantic,
2 May 2025
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Others might have misled you either by accident or with intent.—
Georgia Nicols,
Denver Post,
8 May 2025
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Last fall, they were convicted in a separate federal case of witness tampering for misleading superiors about their actions.—
Katie Riordan,
NPR,
7 May 2025
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“Deceive.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/deceive. Accessed 21 May. 2025.
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