fooling

Example Sentences

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Are we fooling ourselves to think our taxes matter to our moral responsibility?

From Slate • May 11, 2026

“We can delude ourselves for a while that this is not a real cost, but we’re only fooling ourselves at the end of the day,” he says.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 23, 2026

Indeed, depth would only get in the way of the plot, which is primarily concerned with fooling you and fooling you again.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 7, 2026

So Théodore started an account on X, formerly known as Twitter, called "Insane AI Slop" and started calling out and poking fun at the content he came across that was fooling people.

From BBC • Feb. 2, 2026

“It was just Savanna and those guys fooling around,” she said apologetically.

From "Auggie & Me" by R. J. Palacio