snookering

present participle of snooker

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for snookering
Verb
  • 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
Verb
  • 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
  • What does work is tricking her into pressing a button that knocks her out.
    Keith Phipps, Vulture, 28 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • The lexicon of the wine world can be deceiving.
    Tom Mullen, Forbes.com, 25 Aug. 2025
  • Some of the stranger and more alarming AI behaviors, such as blackmailing or deceiving users, have been extensively studied by these companies as a first step toward mitigating possible harms.
    Matteo Wong, The Atlantic, 21 Aug. 2025
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“Snookering.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/snookering. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.

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