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To be found liable under Florida’s consumer protection law, Moskowitz will have to offer evidence that the celebrities knew FTX may have been deceiving investors, said Florida attorney Daniel Lustig, which is tough to prove.

From Washington Post • Dec. 14, 2022

With a 3.88 ERA last season, the M’s had the fourth-best bullpen in the American League, but that ERA might have been deceiving.

From Seattle Times • Apr. 5, 2022

Mr. Roof repeatedly insisted that he did not have a mental illness, and he suggested that his court-appointed lawyers would have been deceiving jurors if they had mounted such a defense.

From New York Times • Jan. 4, 2017

When Ellissen reappears, he concludes that Claire and Droste have been deceiving him, ignores the plaintive bleating of the seadrome's S. O. S. At last he picks up Claire and flies to it.

From Time Magazine Archive

Hazel Prestbury, Linda Marshall, and Nina Forster," she said in a voice that though quiet was full of emotion, "I am deeply grieved to find that you have been deceiving me.

From The Third Class at Miss Kaye's A School Story by Brazil, Angela