as in to deceive
to cause to believe what is untrue
we deluded ourselves into thinking that the ice cream wouldn't affect our diet
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Recent Examples of delude
Atheists wrote that my father deluded himself.
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Literary Hub, 15 Dec. 2025
One source of support she’s found is the Human Line Project, an AI safety group that collects data on people who have been deluded or emotionally affected by chatbots.
—Miles Klee, Rolling Stone, 1 Oct. 2025
ChatGPT doesn’t have to be superintelligent to delude someone, spread misinformation, or make a biased decision.
—Matteo Wong, The Atlantic, 21 Aug. 2025
To agree that that illusion is a reality which needs to be cast out by personal ability is to be deluded.
—Douglas Sytsma, Christian Science Monitor, 30 Jan. 2025
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Literary Hub, 15 Dec. 2025
One source of support she’s found is the Human Line Project, an AI safety group that collects data on people who have been deluded or emotionally affected by chatbots.
—Miles Klee, Rolling Stone, 1 Oct. 2025
ChatGPT doesn’t have to be superintelligent to delude someone, spread misinformation, or make a biased decision.
—Matteo Wong, The Atlantic, 21 Aug. 2025
To agree that that illusion is a reality which needs to be cast out by personal ability is to be deluded.
—Douglas Sytsma, Christian Science Monitor, 30 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for delude
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The lawsuit alleged that Capital One deceived customers about interest rates related to some of its savings account options, according to court filings on the settlement website.—
Melina Khan,
USA Today,
3 May 2026
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Her The Wife nods and supports, all knowingly without deceiving the emotional truths of the narrative.—
Chris Feil,
Vulture,
1 May 2026
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After killing Minnesota’s first power play, the Avalanche opened the scoring when defenseman Sam Malinski scored his first career playoff goal, fooling Wallstedt with a rising wrist shot.—
Jess Myers,
Twin Cities,
4 May 2026
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Don’t let Will Lee’s nickname fool you.—
Mike Kaye
May 4,
Charlotte Observer,
4 May 2026
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According to police records, Torres-García died months before DCF was successfully tricked by her mother into doing a video call with a woman who has said she was asked to impersonate the child.—
Laura Tillman,
Hartford Courant,
2 May 2026
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Instead of acting independently, the forces influence one another to amplify the ion’s motion, thereby tricking the system into generating a much stronger, more complex interaction than either force could achieve alone.—
Mrigakshi Dixit,
Interesting Engineering,
1 May 2026
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“Delude.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/delude. Accessed 6 May. 2026.
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