Sample Sentences for
delude
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    If the poor soul is that delusional, he's even sicker than I thought.  (source)
    delusional = out of touch with reality (having false beliefs)
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    The woman is delusional.  (source)
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    as long as I was truly insane now, I might as well enjoy the delusions while they were pleasant.  (source)
    delusions = false beliefs
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    The ghetto was ruled by neither German nor Jew; it was ruled by delusion.†  (source)
    standard suffix: The suffix "-sion", converts a verb into a noun that denotes the action or result of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in admission from admit, discussion from discuss, and invasion from invade.
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    Am I crazy, or is she completely deluded?†  (source)
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    And he wasn't merely a drunk inflicting his delusions of talent on a captive audience.†  (source)
    standard suffix: The suffix "-sions", converts a verb into a plural noun that denotes results of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in discussions from discuss, explosions from explode, and revisions from revise.
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    I can't fly airplanes if my instructor thinks I'm delusional.†  (source)
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    Except most of us don't delude ourselves that we ever had great destinies.†  (source)
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    Pentecostal Christians think so, but they are deluding themselves.†  (source)
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    He deludes himself And that just suits your madam.†  (source)
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    Or is it that from being a deluder of others he has become at last his own dupe as he is, if report belie him not, his own and his only enjoyer?†  (source)
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    It wasn't easy, even though I'd been to visit my grandfather countless times growing up, because each house looked like the next: squat and boxy with minor variations, trimmed with aluminum siding or dark seventies wood, or fronted by plaster colonnades that seemed almost delusionally aspirational.†  (source)
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    No more getting my hopes up, no more self-delusion, and no more problem-solving.†  (source)
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