trick into
phrasal verb
tricked into; tricking into; tricks into
: to use a trick to make (someone or something) do (something)
He was tricked into buying the car.
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Just as attackers use social engineering to trick people, AI agents can be tricked into executing malicious actions.
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Tony Bradley, Forbes.com, 4 Apr. 2025
The key to incorporating this trick into your looks is dividing the outfit into several sections and matching them chromatically.
—Teresa Romero Martínez, Glamour, 22 Mar. 2025
In short, users are tricked into installing benign extensions for their browser which perform useful tasks as expected.
—Zak Doffman, Forbes, 6 Mar. 2025
Last year, Hong Kong police reported that a finance worker at a multinational firm had been tricked into paying out $25 million to fraudsters using deepfake technology to pose as the company’s chief financial officer in a video conference call.
—Dylan Butts, CNBC, 6 Mar. 2025
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Tony Bradley, Forbes.com, 4 Apr. 2025
The key to incorporating this trick into your looks is dividing the outfit into several sections and matching them chromatically.
—Teresa Romero Martínez, Glamour, 22 Mar. 2025
In short, users are tricked into installing benign extensions for their browser which perform useful tasks as expected.
—Zak Doffman, Forbes, 6 Mar. 2025
Last year, Hong Kong police reported that a finance worker at a multinational firm had been tricked into paying out $25 million to fraudsters using deepfake technology to pose as the company’s chief financial officer in a video conference call.
—Dylan Butts, CNBC, 6 Mar. 2025
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“Trick into.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/trick%20into. Accessed 9 Apr. 2025.
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