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deceptively

[dih-sep-tiv-lee] / dɪˈsɛp tɪv li /




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Such is the beauty of Mungiu’s observational, deceptively nuanced writing.

From Salon ● Sep. 19, 2026

The San Francisco-based AI lab also accused Chinese developers of deceptively using Claude to produce responses to user queries while simultaneously "distilling" that data to improve their own models.

From Barron's ● Sep. 11, 2026

This deceptively simple formulation is premised on an important distinction between sensing and perceiving.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2026

Last September, Amazon paid $2.5 billion to settle allegations that it deceptively tricked consumers into Amazon Prime subscriptions and made cancelling them excessively difficult.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 31, 2026

He’s an earnest, dark-haired boy with a deceptively innocent look to his wide blue eyes, and his fiancee’s name, AELIA, tattooed in block letters on his bicep.

From "An Ember in the Ashes" by Sabaa Tahir




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