How to Use self-deception in a Sentence
self-deception
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Of course, even that change contained a degree of self-deception.
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Tom Debley,
Mercury News,
11 Sep. 2025
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Vice emerges from a series of small permissions and self-deceptions that break down the walls of limits and restraint.
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Katherine Moses,
The Conversation,
13 Mar. 2026
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Living in a continent-sized nation bounded by two vast oceans allows for that dangerous self-deception.
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Chuck Devore,
Chicago Tribune,
18 Mar. 2026
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Living in a continent-sized nation bounded by two vast oceans allows for that dangerous self-deception.
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Chuck Devore,
Twin Cities,
22 Mar. 2026
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Another day or so will help you clarity between what’s really you and what could be lingering self-deception that is up to be cleared.
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Tribune Content Agency,
Baltimore Sun,
9 Feb. 2026
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Indeed, Trial of Hein takes us onto the terrain of self-deception and self-acceptance.
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Georg Szalai,
HollywoodReporter,
11 Feb. 2026
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Still, the national capacity for self-deception has its limits, and recent developments suggest that Putin has found them.
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Simon Shuster,
The Atlantic,
6 June 2026
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Honest behavior has to do with telling the truth, but also prevents cheating, stealing, misleading, promise-breaking, fraud, self-deception, hypocrisy, BS-ing.
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Fiction Non Fiction,
Literary Hub,
21 May 2026
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As the interrogation unfolds, Dave’s belief that he was framed by the State begins to unravel, blurring the line between truth, obsession and self-deception.
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Lily Ford,
HollywoodReporter,
30 Jan. 2026
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