deceive

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Now they are able to do more damage using artificial intelligence to simulate fake grassroots opposition to clean air measures, and they are surreptitiously using the identities of real people to deceive regulators.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 1, 2026

It’s essentially three things: deceive, disrupt, and deny.

From Slate • Mar. 30, 2026

"Fraudsters are using increasingly sophisticated social engineering tactics to deceive customers, often impersonating trusted institutions to gain access to information and account," the company said.

From BBC • Mar. 16, 2026

People who fabricate research or deceive the public deserve scrutiny.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 16, 2026

These familiar examples deceive us into assuming that other major inventions were also responses to perceived needs.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond