tricking

present participle of trick

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of tricking 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 The bad actors utilized a common cyber method—contacting employees by text or phone and pretending to be from IT or human resources—with the goal of tricking those employees to give up sensitive personal information or account access. John Kell, Fortune, 20 Aug. 2025 Scammers obtained the money by tricking victims into believing that their grandchildren or close family members were in trouble and desperately needed money, a scheme the FBI calls a grandparent scam. Michael Loria, USA Today, 13 Aug. 2025 Social engineering attacks typically involve tricking employees into revealing passwords or installing malicious software that gives attackers access to internal systems. Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 10 Aug. 2025 The church hosts sure love tricking us into eating raw broccoli by serving it up in this creamy pasta salad. Kaitlyn Yarborough, Southern Living, 8 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for tricking
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
  • Looks can be deceiving, Cali said.
    Bryan Washington, New Yorker, 7 Sep. 2025
  • The lexicon of the wine world can be deceiving.
    Tom Mullen, Forbes.com, 25 Aug. 2025

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“Tricking.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tricking. Accessed 11 Sep. 2025.

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