foxed
Americanadjective
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deceived; tricked.
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stained or spotted a yellowish brown, as by age.
a dog-eared and foxed volume of poetry.
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(of museum specimens of birds and mammals) having melanin pigments that have oxidized with age to a reddish-brown color.
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But the algorithms that underpin smart systems can be foxed by mundane events.
From BBC ● Jun. 11, 2020
All that remained of those days, apart from the stories, were these exotic bottles, their labels brittle and foxed.
From The New Yorker ● Jan. 15, 2017
For all those millions of people who were foxed and bamboozled at every turn by the ticketing lottery, following the games via these streams is the closest thing there is to actually being there.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 30, 2012
This is not good, but we have found reference to the circumstance that this book is usually — if not always — found in a foxed condition.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 14, 2011
I wonder what he had in mind for you to do with it; as you couldn’t read it, I’m foxed as to what he was a thinking.”
From "The Golden Compass" by Philip Pullman
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