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bamboozling

  • present participle
    of bamboozle.
    bamboozle
    verb (used with object)
    to deceive or get the better of (someone) by trickery, flattery, or the like; humbug; hoodwink (often followed byinto ).

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Now, it’s out of hibernation—and bamboozling hitters everywhere.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 30, 2026

This worked to an extent, especially in terms of bamboozling the media into misreporting what he actually said.

From Salon ● Apr. 11, 2024

Much of the criticism of Ms. Swift, meanwhile, seems tinged with condescension, suggesting that a 33-year-old female pop star is a gullible naïf, ripe for bamboozling by political operators.

From New York Times ● Feb. 3, 2024

"The gap in the market that we fill is to say, hey, this management has been bamboozling you investors or misleading you," says Mr Block.

From BBC ● Oct. 23, 2023

Whereon it, sophisticated piece of hardware that it was, chomped away in simulated contentment, bamboozling the other tenants of the building.

From "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" by Philip K. Dick