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fooling

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verb

present participle of fool

fooling

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noun

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of fooling
Noun
Stop fooling yourself and listen. Richard B. Williams, Denver Post, 10 Sep. 2025 And tech companies must do far more in the design of AI systems to prevent people fooling themselves into thinking these systems are conscious beings. Jeremy Kahn, Fortune, 26 Aug. 2025 Deepfakes are getting better at fooling people and will continue to be a rising threat. Gene Marks, Forbes.com, 24 Aug. 2025 James cuts back inside onto his right foot, fooling the defender, rather than going to the byline off his left foot. Beren Cross, New York Times, 8 Apr. 2025 Each plays a role in fooling their foe, who captures the turtle, while the deer, heeding the turtle’s good counsel, manages a sly escape. John Nemec, The Conversation, 7 Apr. 2025 Myatt has already served time for his fooling art auction houses and others into buying his copies of others’ art, and got out of jail for doing just that in 1999. The Editors Of Artnews, ARTnews.com, 1 Apr. 2025 The Naperville City Council election is April 1 (not fooling). Naperville Sun, Chicago Tribune, 18 Mar. 2025 Chunky and at times fooling no one with its meandering character logic, there’s a reason most of the awards this film went to Hopkins. Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 17 Mar. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for fooling
Verb
  • What does work is tricking her into pressing a button that knocks her out.
    Keith Phipps, Vulture, 4 Sep. 2025
  • While the Phantom Hacker attack is designed specifically to drain your bank accounts, there are plenty of variants relying on tricking you into installing dangerous software that either gives an attacker a view of your device or hijacks it completely.
    Zak Doffman, Forbes.com, 30 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • Harry brought his trademark humor and warmth to the awards, a ceremony honoring seriously ill children who have shown incredible courage, joking and making smiles all around.
    Erin Hill, People.com, 9 Sep. 2025
  • The pair let the news spread for a few moments -- then Stern jumped on to clarify that Cohen had been joking.
    Ahmad Hemingway, ABC News, 8 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Advances in deception and seeking technologies will further shape this contest, as each side works to reduce the effectiveness of the other’s systems.
    Vikram Mittal, Forbes.com, 9 Sep. 2025
  • Minnesota’s Public Safety Commissioner Bob Jacobson condemned the deception and affirmed how troubling the ambush was.
    Stepheny Price, FOXNews.com, 7 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • The honeymoon phase can be deceiving.
    Essence, Essence, 12 Sep. 2025
  • Share your horror at learning that this person is deceiving family members and basically stealing from them.
    Harriette Cole, Mercury News, 12 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Police said McGriff employed the ruse to access the couple's Queens residence and then set it ablaze.
    Joshua Rhett Miller, MSNBC Newsweek, 10 Sep. 2025
  • McGriff allegedly tried the ruse at a nearby house first but was turned away, Tisch said.
    Mark Morales, CNN Money, 9 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Corona del Mar used some trickery to take the lead on the ensuing possession.
    Michael Huntley, Oc Register, 13 Sep. 2025
  • Or, some serious internal trickery.
    New Atlas, New Atlas, 9 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • The trial was a kangaroo circus packed with sophism, subterfuge, and courtroom chicanery.
    Manuel Muñoz, Literary Hub, 11 Sep. 2025
  • Maybe Payton’s running the best preseason subterfuge campaign ever to make Estime look bad on film.
    Sean Keeler, Denver Post, 17 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • Seeing Laura’s discomfort with her, Cherry employs her feminine wiles to cause a fracture in Laura and Daniel’s connection.
    Aramide Tinubu, Variety, 10 Sep. 2025
  • Maye was 15-for-25 for 184 yards with a touchdown and an interception wile rushing four times for 24 yards.
    Michael Hurley, MSNBC Newsweek, 6 Sep. 2025

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