Confuse
Confuse verb - To throw into a state of mental uncertainty.
Tells
Both words in one sentence
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The Dilbert Principle tells advertisers to take advantage of their customers' stupidity to confuse competitors' products with their own "eerily similar but much worse" products.
Source: Bland-Name Product - Steely Dan tells everyone not to confuse his name with the title of Steel Ball Run.
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Calling Your Attacks: He mentally tells the Witch "This is my smile on this bullet", which makes sense, so that the Witch can't confuse it for anything but a positive emotion.
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