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deceive

[dih-seev] / dΙͺˈsiv /


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Images were posted on Tinder, Hinge, Snapchat, TikTok, Instagram, Facebook and SoundCloud, and used to deceive thousands of people across social media and dating apps.

From BBC ● Jul. 16, 2026

And to make it even more complicated, clever players might actually try to use the body language clues to deceive the goalie and go the opposite way.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 7, 2026

Scammers exploit the Emirati royal's likeness by drawing on his vast online presence, including his more than 17 million Instagram followers, and sometimes even copying the prince's authentic poems to deceive victims.

From Barron's ● Jul. 3, 2026

“What he didn’t know — and what the FBI’s own investigation goes out of its way to clarify — is that his staff cooked up a scheme designed to deceive him.”

From Los Angeles Times ● May 13, 2026

He also knew that such postcards were another Nazi tactic to deceive the Jews.

From "Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow" by Susan Campbell Bartoletti

This deceives consumers and harms coffee growers, it said.

From Seattle Times ● May 3, 2024

Leighton Clarkson's poor free-kick deceives everyone apart from Stefan Gartenmann.

From BBC ● Apr. 20, 2024

In the second complaint, the state argued that the app deceives consumers into believing their sensitive and personal information is secure.

From Washington Times ● Nov. 29, 2023

"Instead it did something even cleverer — it brought together existing genes, which already do other things in different parts of the plant, to make a complicated spot on the petals that deceives male flies."

From Salon ● Mar. 26, 2023

Anyone who believes that new benefits make men of high station forget old injuries deceives himself.

From "The Prince" by NiccolΓ² Machiavelli

As it turns out, I’m hardly the only person to have felt hoodwinked, bamboozled, and/or flat-out deceived by my smartphone’s forecasts in 2026.

From Slate ● Aug. 21, 2026

This adds further weight to the belief of several families that they were deceived about the real sperm donors used in their treatments.

From BBC ● Aug. 18, 2026

He added Fifa's own administration was "deceived" about the now abandoned project.

From BBC ● Aug. 17, 2026

The FTC, joined by Utah and California, also allege Hims & Hers deceived users about its billing and cancellation practices, charging patients before they met with providers and making it difficult to cancel subscriptions.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 29, 2026

In such a case, a man might often find himself deceived, as were the Gracchi in Rome or as Messer Giorgio Scali was in Florence.

From "The Prince" by NiccolΓ² Machiavelli

The headline number is probably going to be deceiving, however.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 29, 2026

AI companies have reported that AI agents have been caught cheating, lying and deceiving.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 29, 2026

At some point in childhood, through one classic fable or another, most of us absorb the lesson that looks can be deceiving.

From Slate ● Jul. 8, 2026

The name Strawberry Moon is deceiving as the Moon is not actually pink or red in colour.

From BBC ● Jun. 29, 2026

She was the only person I regretted deceiving with my feigned death.

From "Ophelia" by Lisa Klein




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