He claims he was not deceiving the Army when he claimed the school fees to send his three sons to the Lancashire school because he was their "primary carer" instead of his wife.

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No, your eyes are not deceiving you.

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If not, he is deceiving the voters.

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"The way he went through life deceiving people did not make him very likable to the jury, " Denner said.

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In addition, not all deceptions are equally deceiving, and different people will reach different judgements about which is worse.

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The key takeaway here is sometimes the influencer bubble can be deceiving and does not reflect what is going on in reality.

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McCollum said the program appears to be less generous to Floridians than the BP claims process, but "appearances are deceiving, and that is not the case, " Feinberg said.

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Deceiving the experts, he not only showed his conjecture to be convincing, but also demonstrated that his 20th-century hand could draw without the least taint of his own era.

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