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Example sentences for: deceive
How can you use “deceive” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:
In 2002, Langleben showed that when subjects were hiding information in an attempt to deceive (so-called guilty knowledge), they had intense activity in five distinct brain areas not seen when they were telling the truth.
For example, résumer does not mean to resume but, as Americans know from their adoption of résumé for curriculum vitae, to summarize; and decevoir means to disappoint, not to deceive.
In parallel with the roots of onomatopoeia (onoma `name' + poiein `to make or do') I have christened the effect onomatoplazia: onoma again + pladzein `to mislead or deceive.
' To half-sell anything is not to sell it at all, but to make it seem as if it had been sold, that is, `to deceive.
But these surface similarities deceive.
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