as in to trick
to cause to believe what is untrue
the student succeeded in stringing even his teachers along with his tales of family hardships
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Published in March 2023, the coverage exposed the negligence of real estate developer Doug Cox, who strung along buyers who paid down payments for 4,000-square-foot townhouses in Coconut Grove in 2018.
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Miami Herald Staff Report, Miami Herald, 21 June 2024
Then there’s the transmission system — those big high towers with lots of cables strung along them.
—Jan Ellen Spiegel, Hartford Courant, 10 Apr. 2024
Damascus excels at stringing along negotiations, and the UN talks in Geneva that Washington has pinned its hopes on are stalemated.
—Robert S. Ford, Foreign Affairs, 25 Jan. 2021
The small towns strung along the Long Island Sound combine quiet coastal beauty and gobs of old-timey charm (think picture-perfect inns and cozy taverns).
—Anne Olivia Bauso, Travel + Leisure, 26 Apr. 2024
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Miami Herald Staff Report, Miami Herald, 21 June 2024
Then there’s the transmission system — those big high towers with lots of cables strung along them.
—Jan Ellen Spiegel, Hartford Courant, 10 Apr. 2024
Damascus excels at stringing along negotiations, and the UN talks in Geneva that Washington has pinned its hopes on are stalemated.
—Robert S. Ford, Foreign Affairs, 25 Jan. 2021
The small towns strung along the Long Island Sound combine quiet coastal beauty and gobs of old-timey charm (think picture-perfect inns and cozy taverns).
—Anne Olivia Bauso, Travel + Leisure, 26 Apr. 2024
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The tools take advantage of Generative adversarial networks, which, in essence, try to trick the AI algorithm with incorrect (i.e., adversarial) data.PCMAG, PCMAG, 12 Nov. 2024
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The stunning corruption scheme finally came to an end in September 2013, when authorities tricked his NCIS mole into thinking the most serious investigations had been closed and then invited Francis to San Diego for a meeting with Navy officials.Alex Riggins, The Mercury News, 6 Nov. 2024
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Your partner is either fooling himself or attempting to fool you.R. Eric Thomas, The Mercury News, 4 Nov. 2024
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Fischer, who played the paper company's receptionist Pam (until she was promoted), explained that creator Greg Daniels even filmed a fake version of the episode to fool them.Raechal Shewfelt, EW.com, 1 Nov. 2024
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Voters could be deceived into submitting funds to a joint pool of money to support a candidate.Filip Timotija, The Hill, 30 Oct. 2024
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The pair find themselves in trouble after a hazing incident goes wrong, and attempt to lie, deceive and seduce their way out of bother.Abid Rahman, The Hollywood Reporter, 24 Oct. 2024
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The industry's hunger has led to a data land grab: Companies are vying to teach their baby AIs using information sucked in from many different sources — sometimes with the owner's permission, often without it — before new laws and court rulings make that harder.Ina Fried, Axios, 4 Nov. 2024
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Its minuscule volume, however, would at least prevent you from getting sucked in.Clara Moskowitz, Scientific American, 24 Sep. 2024
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“String along.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/string%20along. Accessed 17 Nov. 2024.
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