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lead on

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. lead onverb

    entice or induce especially when unwise or mistaken

  2. deceive, lead on, delude, cozenverb

    be false to; be dishonest with

Wiktionary

  1. lead onverb

    to mislead, to try to make someone believe a lie.

  2. lead onverb

    to encourage with the illusion of a romantic relationship.

ChatGPT

  1. lead on

    To lead on generally means to guide, direct, or manipulate someone, often by giving them false hopes or misleading information. It is typically used to describe situations where one person misleads another into thinking something that isn't true, usually for personal gain.

Wikidata

  1. Lead On

    Lead On is an album released by American country music artist George Strait. Released in 1994 on MCA Records, the album was certified platinum in the U.S. for sales of one million copies. It includes the singles "The Big One", "You Can't Make a Heart Love Somebody", "Lead On", and "Adalida", which respectively reached #1, #1, #7 and #3 on the Hot Country Songs charts between 1994 and 1995. The album's title track was co-written by Teddy Gentry, who at the time was a member of the band Alabama.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of lead on in Chaldean Numerology is: 7

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of lead on in Pythagorean Numerology is: 6

Examples of lead on in a Sentence

  1. Elspeth Cameron Ritchie:

    I think the VA is in the lead on treatment of PTSD. Are they doing as much as they could be? It's no secret that the VA is an overwhelmed system, and it's no secret to anybody that the VA can't handle it all.

  2. Bhaskar Gorti:

    I personally think we have a at least 2 to 3 years or more lead on our nearest competitor Ericsson (in software).

  3. Yves Galimidi:

    It's quite normal that if you have the lead on something and suddenly you don't have it any more, or you might not have it in the future, it creates some kind of questions.

  4. The AGA Freeman:

    For any regulated industry you can sit back and wait for regulators to tighten the screws or you can take the lead on your own and that’s what the gaming industry has done here.

  5. Tim Walz:

    The way this works is that the mayors ask and they take charge and lead on the missions.

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