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Discover LudwigThe phrase "a deception in which" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a specific type of deception that involves a particular method or scenario.
Example: "The magician's act was a deception in which the audience was led to believe they had witnessed real magic."
Alternatives: "a trick that involves" or "a ruse in which".
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This is a film about secrets: when she was 20 and pregnant, Nora's boyfriend died, and his violent death is shrouded in a mystery which she has maintained for decades, a deception in which her father has made himself complicit, and he too nurses a festering secret in his heart.
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In 1990, he wrote a novel called Deception, in which a wildly promiscuous writer called Philip lives with a dowdy, middle-aged, pampered actress called Claire.
MSNBC notes a classic example of this deception in which Fran Kuni, a sex offender who changed his name to Jamie Shepard, was hired as a U.S. Census worker.
But first comes NBC's almost-as-improbable "Deception," in which a police detective trying to solve a murder goes undercover to get the skinny on a wealthy family with all sorts of wickedness in its DNA.
After Mortal Kombat II, her teeth were almost never used again during gameplay until Mortal Kombat 2011 (in a leap attack to bite an opponent in the neck and in one Fatality to gnaw on the killed enemy's severed head), with a sole exception of one Fatality in Deception in which she uses them to tear off the opponent's head.
But on Sept. 29 she will introduce Kissinger at the State Department Historian's conference, giving him a platform to continue 40 years of Orwellian deception in which he has sought to blame Congress for the fall of Indochina rather than accepting responsibility for his own massive miscalculations and indifference to human suffering.
10. 'TOPDOG/UNDERDOG' Suzan-Lori Pulitzer Prize-winning-winning drama of race, brotherhood and deception, in which all the world is a con game.
What is this, 1946, the year that the suave romantic thriller "Deception" (in which Bette Davis plays the murderous wife of a famous cellist) was hitting theatres?
"The true stories are tales of state-sponsored deception in which women's emotional and political lives were deemed worthless.
In other words, rather than a narrative of connection, Minot has written a chronicle of self-deception in which the fellatio features more as a depressing end than as a beginning.
If you say the song is good, people accuse you of being a Stones apologist, of practicing a kind of self-deception in which you pretend that the band is still relevant.
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