delude

"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 delude ourselves, too, if we think that power will accumulate safely and only in the hands of dispassionate ‘people . . . found in agencies.’”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 22, 2026

Let's not delude ourselves, we're looking at human extinction, the death of eight billion people, and there's no way that people will be able to survive in anything like an increase of 5º centigrade.

From Salon ● Oct. 24, 2024

John Faa said, “Lyra, there en’t no question of taking you into danger, so don’t delude yourself, child. Stay here and help Ma Costa and keep safe. That’s what you got to do.”

From "The Golden Compass" by Philip Pullman

She concocts a fantasy, one that Arthur deludes himself into believing.

From Salon ● Oct. 12, 2024

It deludes us into thinking that someone else is going to rush in while we watch and cheer from the stands.

From Slate ● Mar. 4, 2024

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

One good way of describing a speculative bubble is a moment when society deludes itself into believing that something plentiful is scarce, or will soon be.

From New York Times ● Feb. 10, 2017

He has beggared two or three of her acquaintance already, under the same flimsy pretense of intended marriage, that scarcely deludes poor Abigail; she has sore misgivings as to her own fate.

From Sword and Gown A Novel by George A. (George Alfred) Lawrence

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

“Are they bigots? Are they deluded in thinking that they are subjected to unfair competition?”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 13, 2026

Or perhaps time, as it will, lent the occasion a gravity that it did not possess, and everything was as Lander insisted: They were deluded.

From "The Underground Railroad: A Novel" by Colson Whitehead

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

My blood - painfully milked out of my index finger - will determine whether I have been deluding myself too.

From BBC ● Nov. 12, 2022

This is her accomplishment these days: deluding the tutor.

From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood