hoodwinking

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Another example of agent Scott Boras hoodwinking one of their own, they said.

From Los Angeles Times • May 2, 2024

It is digital trickery, hoodwinking the brain into seeing something that isn't really there.

From BBC • Oct. 19, 2023

What is it about scams and hoodwinking that appeals to us in a visceral way that we want to read these stories, and we want to explore them?

From Salon • Jul. 11, 2023

At one point he sent for me, and I found him on his cellphone with someone on the crew, proposing a plot that, I soon gathered, involved hoodwinking Gilligan.

From New York Times • Feb. 9, 2022

First, what makes you think that Quinn—this man of certain standing, you know—wasn’t hoodwinking you, in order to get you to do exactly what you are doing?”

From "I, Robot" by Isaac Asimov