as in fooled
to cause to believe what is untrue
you tricked me into thinking my ex wasn't coming to the party tonight
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Recent Examples of tricked
Sakchai Lalit, Los Angeles Times, 3 Feb. 2026
Wiles barely could make the tight final left-hand turn that had tricked Monsen.
—CBS News, 30 Jan. 2026
At another point in that game, he was tricked by a Jensen dummy, leaving the latter with an unobstructed opportunity to cross into the box.
—Cerys Jones, New York Times, 26 Jan. 2026
That's where people get tricked.
—Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 16 Jan. 2026
Accountancy has seen several cheating scandals in recent years, with the Big Four firms hit with multimillion-dollar fines after staff tricked internal exams, but the sector is far from alone.
—Tom Chivers, semafor.com, 29 Dec. 2025
Yet another elderly victim had just fed thousands of dollars into the device after being tricked by a scammer.
—Curt Devine, CNN Money, 17 Dec. 2025
Kim even tricked a bunch of people who did special effects for Godzilla movies, including suitmation actor Kenpachiro Satsuma, into working on Pulgasari.
—James Grebey, Vulture, 1 Dec. 2025
Respected tech firms try to put safeguards in place to prevent their bots from being used to create malicious code, but they can be tricked; a user can pose as a participant in a cybersecurity competition, as experts at Google recently reported, which may lead the AI to comply with their requests.
—Matteo Wong, The Atlantic, 25 Nov. 2025
Verb
Experts say such scam operations in Cambodia and elsewhere have cheated people around the world out of billions of dollars and tricked people from many countries to work in them under slave-like conditions.
—Sakchai Lalit, Los Angeles Times, 3 Feb. 2026
Wiles barely could make the tight final left-hand turn that had tricked Monsen.
—CBS News, 30 Jan. 2026
At another point in that game, he was tricked by a Jensen dummy, leaving the latter with an unobstructed opportunity to cross into the box.
—Cerys Jones, New York Times, 26 Jan. 2026
That's where people get tricked.
—Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 16 Jan. 2026
Accountancy has seen several cheating scandals in recent years, with the Big Four firms hit with multimillion-dollar fines after staff tricked internal exams, but the sector is far from alone.
—Tom Chivers, semafor.com, 29 Dec. 2025
Yet another elderly victim had just fed thousands of dollars into the device after being tricked by a scammer.
—Curt Devine, CNN Money, 17 Dec. 2025
Kim even tricked a bunch of people who did special effects for Godzilla movies, including suitmation actor Kenpachiro Satsuma, into working on Pulgasari.
—James Grebey, Vulture, 1 Dec. 2025
Respected tech firms try to put safeguards in place to prevent their bots from being used to create malicious code, but they can be tricked; a user can pose as a participant in a cybersecurity competition, as experts at Google recently reported, which may lead the AI to comply with their requests.
—Matteo Wong, The Atlantic, 25 Nov. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for tricked
Verb
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While everyone could be more easily fooled now, don’t be the one remembered for delivering bad intel.—
Tribune Content Agency,
Baltimore Sun,
8 Feb. 2026
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Don’t be fooled by its petite, easy-to-carry silhouette, though, because the bag boasts plenty of space to stow your essentials and beyond.—
Kyra Surgent,
InStyle,
6 Feb. 2026
Adjective
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O’Hara relished playing deluded snobs like this wealthy Manhattanite with artistic ambitions from director Tim Burton’s horror comedy about two dead owners of a country house who want to drive out its new buyers.—
Julie Hinds,
Freep.com,
30 Jan. 2026
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That sequence also introduces a placidly smiley Kylie Jenner playing herself on seemingly a Valium-Adderall speedball of deluded bounciness.—
Ryan Lattanzio,
IndieWire,
24 Jan. 2026
Verb
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And don’t be deceived by Saturday’s sunny skies as the high will be 32 with wind chills as low as 9 degrees.—
Amanda McCoy,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
30 Jan. 2026
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Challengers should give Marylanders the option to choose a new direction and remove the need to confront the painful reality that they were deceived.—
Torrey Snow,
Baltimore Sun,
14 Jan. 2026
Adjective
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Congress foolishly downsized that number in the 1980s and ’90s on the erroneous belief that more doctors would encourage unnecessary health care consumption.—
Betsy McCaughey,
Boston Herald,
8 Feb. 2026
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Civilians misidentified as undercover officers have been chased by anti-ICE mobs in public, even while the victims were going about their daily lives, based on erroneous reporting from fellow ICE monitors.—
Mia Cathell,
The Washington Examiner,
4 Feb. 2026
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“Tricked.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tricked. Accessed 14 Feb. 2026.
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