How to Use delude in a Sentence
delude
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Or deluding themselves along with him.
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Grant Brisbee,
New York Times,
1 Feb. 2026
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But Steve Cohen should not be deluded.
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Bill Madden,
New York Daily News,
16 May 2026
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There’s no ability to delude oneself.
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Hanif Abdurraqib,
New Yorker,
31 May 2026
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Atheists wrote that my father deluded himself.
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Literary Hub,
15 Dec. 2025
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To agree that that illusion is a reality which needs to be cast out by personal ability is to be deluded.
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Douglas Sytsma,
Christian Science Monitor,
30 Jan. 2025
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This might not be a circumstance where the AI would shine in aiding the mental health of the user (or, on the other side of the coin, deluding them and entrapping them).
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Lance Eliot,
Forbes.com,
31 May 2026
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He should not be deluded by the Phillies’ quick flurry of wins after replacing Rob Thompson as manager with Don Mattingly.
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Bill Madden,
New York Daily News,
2 May 2026
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Tough conversations await Carolina in the offseason, provided a postseason berth does not delude them into thinking the team's trajectory remains upward.
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Mike Sando,
New York Times,
5 Jan. 2026
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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.
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Miles Klee,
Rolling Stone,
1 Oct. 2025
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Instead, Weinstein told the jury, Nick Kassotis had been duped and deluded by the mysterious figure Jim McIntyre.
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Erin Moriarty,
CBS News,
8 Mar. 2026
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ChatGPT doesn’t have to be superintelligent to delude someone, spread misinformation, or make a biased decision.
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Matteo Wong,
The Atlantic,
21 Aug. 2025
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