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
But Americans shouldn’t delude themselves that Taiwan is a mere dot on the map and a charity case.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 10, 2026
That was the reason the casino bothered to list the wheel’s most recent spins: to help gamblers to delude themselves.
From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis
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
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
Katharine said: 'If this tempter of the Devil's brood were brought down there should ensue so great an atonement from his sorrowful master whom he deludes....'
From The Fifth Queen And How She Came to Court by Ford Madox Ford
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
Jumping from that, to being given responsibility for a new line from a well-known company, would appear daunting to many, but Hamblin says he is "deluded enough to not really feel the pressure".
From BBC ● Feb. 25, 2026
“Are they bigots? Are they deluded in thinking that they are subjected to unfair competition?”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 13, 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
There could be “huge social ruptures where one side sees the other as very cruelly exploiting AI while the other side sees the first as deluding itself into thinking there’s sentience there,” he said.
From Salon ● Jun. 10, 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
If she is not, I have been sadly deluding myself.
From "Nine Stories" by J. D. Salinger
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