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
It is worse than hypocrisy, because they seek to deceive not only others but themselves.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 23, 2026
"There is no fraud, no intent to deceive, nothing whatsoever criminal or remotely a basis to allege mortgage fraud," her lawyers wrote.
From BBC • Jan. 21, 2026
“Do you want me then,” said Estella, turning suddenly with a fixed and serious, if not angry, look, “to deceive and entrap you?”
From "Great Expectations" by Charles Dickens
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