- present participle of fool.
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
Those expecting the silly 795% 2025 returns of the year’s best performer, the leveraged $2.1 billion MicroSectors Gold Miners 3X Leveraged, to repeat are almost surely fooling themselves.
From Barron's ● Jan. 8, 2026
“I would be fooling myself to think that I was meant to be a fearless fighter,” she said in her autobiography.
From "The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights" by Russell Freedman
