deceptively

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For nearly a decade, journalists have wrestled with a deceptively simple question: Does covering extremists expose them or empower them?

From Salon • Apr. 6, 2026

It’s a get-in-where-you-fit-in or get-edged-all-the-way-out kind of city, wherein a deceptively laissez-faire game of musical chairs can determine your fate.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 4, 2026

He launched a similar inquiry into Kellogg’s, suggesting it had deceptively marketed its cereals, as if it were some scandalous secret that Froot Loops contain food coloring.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 27, 2026

For more than 50 years, he has been creating deceptively simple but often back-breaking works in nature, through freezing winters, boiling summers and the seasons in between.

From BBC • Feb. 6, 2026

His voice came out sounding deceptively calm and steady.

From "The Strangers" by Margaret Peterson Haddix