Tricking

Love is nature's way of tricking people into reproducing.

My eyes are tricking me.

My eyes must be tricking me.

The dictator distracted the populace by tricking them into victimizing marginalized people.

I have a feeling that she is tricking me.

John has been tricking Jessica.

Tricking your niece isn't as easy as it seems.

Diana Deutsch conducts research on the perception and memory of sounds. Some of this has inspired her to develop musical illusions, tricking people's ears in the same way artist M.C. Escher tricked people's eyes.

Go get us properties / And tricking for our fairies.

[I]t is the degenerate fondness for tricking short-cuts, and little fallacious facilities, that has in so many parts of the world created governments with arbitrary powers.