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Discover LudwigThe phrase "We were fooled" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to express that someone has been deceived or tricked in a situation. Example: "After realizing the truth about the scam, we were fooled by their convincing story."
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"We were fooled," said another team member, Dr. Steven Vogt, an astronomer at Santa Cruz.
We were fooled once, but I don't think we're going to be fooled again.
I think we were fooled by penicillin.
They can't be fooled, like we were fooled in the old days.
It seems we were fooled by his affable ich bin Amerikaner manners.
I'm not certain if it's the first; at any event it manages to be splendidly mordant: partly a matter of how we were fooled, but more painfully (and if you can manage to laugh, comically) of how we fooled ourselves.
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"It wasn't like we were fooling ourselves," Mr. Gonzalez said.
We were fooling around, but I wasn't really enjoying it.
"Even though we won the Premiership easily, there was a serious danger that we were fooling ourselves.
My god!" "My friend came into my room and we were fooling around a bit.
But, like the people she hopes to convince, we are fooled, albeit temporarily.
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