deception
Example Sentences
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The CIA also carried out a deception operation to throw the Iranians off the airman’s track.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 5, 2026
The CIA also ran a deception campaign, according to reports, spreading word inside Iran that US forces had already found the second airman.
From BBC • Apr. 5, 2026
The US intelligence agency the CIA helping to locate him and launched a "deception campaign" aimed at convincing Iranian authorities that he had already been found, the newspaper added.
From Barron's • Apr. 5, 2026
In Turner’s new Prime Video series, she plays a finance worker who gets caught up in a complex web of deception after her office is held up by thieves.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 30, 2026
Somehow, he'd been caught up in so many layers of deception: Willow Chance wasn't a cheater.
From "Counting by 7s" by Holly Goldberg Sloan
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
