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Examples of fooled

fooled

In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.

He was determined, however, not to be fooled by any further false promises.
Can an observer maintain a hold on certainty at the same time that he announces his desire to be fooled?
Don't be fooled, those ways can persist into old age.
Are people in moving rooms, patrons of the cinema, and users of virtual reality devices really fooled?
Obviously, the tern chicks in the experiment were not recognizing their individual parents - they were being fooled into treating a loudspeaker as a parent tern.
He easily fools other beings and is easily fooled by them.
This would only be seen, however, by someone who was already familiar with the procedure : anybody else would be fooled.
It has fooled some of us for some of the time, but it now risks fooling us all of the time.
Of course, many of the local rioters and unemployed were not fooled by the strategy.
We point out that fast (dorsal) actions can be fooled by contextual illusions while (ventral) perceptual judgements can be insensitive to them.
These experiments show that when performing motor tasks, as used by the ecologists to study invariants, subjects can be fooled by illusions.
It would prove interesting to see whether a motor response, presumably controlled by the dorsal system, would be fooled in the same manner.
The feeling of conscious will can be fooled.
If such compiler optimizations cannot be turned off or fooled, one must generate code for the gen function by hand.
It also implies that those who protested were an enlightened minority who were not fooled by the conspiracy, a point which is flattering to them.
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