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Discover LudwigThe phrase "are fooled" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a situation where someone is deceived or misled, often in a passive construction.
Example: "Many people are fooled by the clever marketing tactics used by the company."
Alternatives: "are deceived" or "are misled".
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are fooled
verb
To trick; to make a fool of someone.
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Few Spaniards are fooled.
But few Somalis are fooled.
But not all consumers are fooled.
Now the Chinese people feel they are fooled.
Sometimes, too, devices fire "inappropriately" — they malfunction or are fooled by arrhythmias that aren't dangerous.
In fact, the more expert they are, the more they are fooled.
None of us with cancer are fooled into optimism because it was found "early".
"Sometimes people are fooled by me," he told a voter at the Portsmouth town hall.
But, like the people she hopes to convince, we are fooled, albeit temporarily.
Yet the other characters in the story are fooled by them.
Perhaps filmmakers are fooled by the success basketball players have had in television commercials.
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