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Adjective
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The position of elementary education among the least susceptible to poverty might be surprising, but elementary school teachers are scarce and in demand.—
Erik Sherman,
Forbes.com,
17 Sep. 2025 -
Children and babies are more susceptible to lead toxicity due to their smaller body size, metabolism, and rapid growth.—
Toby Meyjes,
MSNBC Newsweek,
17 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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Rather than feeling triumphant at how believable ELIZA was, Weizenbaum was depressed by how gullible people seemed to be.—
Jeremy Kahn,
Fortune,
26 Aug. 2025
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Teenagers, despite our best efforts to educate them in open-minded ways, are gullible and therefore vulnerable.—
Eli Amdur,
Forbes.com,
11 Aug. 2025
Adjective
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Police describe it as a brazen, unsophisticated robbery that occurred around 5:30 p.m. on June 18, targeting a jewelry store on the 5100 block of Mowry Avenue in Fremont.—
Nate Gartrell,
Mercury News,
7 Aug. 2025
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Although the answer was reasonable for an unsophisticated seller, the listing agent should have required confirmation of licensing status with the Registrar of Contractors.—
Christopher A. Combs,
AZCentral.com,
5 Aug. 2025
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Yet despite this unprecedented sophistication, exploitable patterns remain.—
Becca Bratcher,
Forbes.com,
9 Sep. 2025
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This could soon begin to attract the criminal organizations looking for exploitable areas of science.—
Keith Cooper,
Space.com,
11 Aug. 2025
Adjective
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Summarizing decades of comics history is no easy task but the team pulls it off well here.—
Rob Wieland,
Forbes.com,
17 Sep. 2025
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Transforming Amazon into a startup-like environment isn’t an easy task.—
Annie Palmer,
CNBC,
17 Sep. 2025
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By enjoying the exciting spectacle, their fans have willingly become mindless followers—idol worshippers who are too misguided, and naive, to see they’re being led toward their own destruction.—
Yvonne Kim,
The Atlantic,
12 Sep. 2025
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Speaking of burnout, that was the ultimate destination for the generation that came before, singed by their naive belief that adopting a neo-Stakhanovite approach to work and careers would pay off.—
Dave Smith,
Fortune,
11 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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Cats are far less trusting than dogs and rarely fall for the pill-in-the-treat ploy.—
Joan Morris,
Mercury News,
15 Sep. 2025
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Police often become less trusting and more suspicious over time.—
Dave Winsborough,
Forbes.com,
10 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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Paul and Julie have an open marriage; their relationship is as modern as their taste in architecture, and Carey, guileless to a fault, assumes that his friend won’t mind.—
Justin Chang,
New Yorker,
22 Aug. 2025
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But Meg Stalter is not so much clueless as compassionately guileless.—
Anna Peele,
Rolling Stone,
10 July 2025
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“Deceivable.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/deceivable. Accessed 20 Sep. 2025.
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