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With the proceeds, these managers often buy winning stocks in order to create the false impression that they had owned them all along.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 12, 2026
A false denial, a chairman-less board and no named successor highlight how Nvidia’s board does things CEO Jensen Huang’s way.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 10, 2026
“This unwanted scrutiny and the ensuing media stories, which contain false information, has caused significant damage to Ms. Hudson, which would not have occurred had Defendants not leaked Ms. Hudson’s personal and private information.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 9, 2026
"It is false advertisement, it is totally off-putting and really frustrating," she said.
From BBC ● Nov. 7, 2026
But then Leonard took out the bottom of the trunk—it had been a false bottom.
From "The Mona Lisa Vanishes" by Nicholas Day
Almost everything that happens afterward feels even falser than the onion.
From New York Times ● Jun. 27, 2017
He tones down his own mugging from Zoolander this time out, retreating to a more familiar reasonable-and-rational act that makes Stiller's much more exaggerated performance look even falser by contrast.
From The Verge ● Feb. 11, 2016
The movie's involved story, full of false leads and falser dialogue, manages the difficult trick of getting more preposterous as it goes along.
From Time Magazine Archive
For the new Writers, building on their ground, thinking them true, add to them, and invent, and draw other Experiments from them, that are falser then the Principles they insisted on.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
They were crafty, greedy, and false; he was craftier, greedier, and falser than they.
From A Short History of Italy (476-1900) by Henry Dwight Sedgwick
Isn’t a novel, as we might have said in high school, one of the falsest things going as well as one of the truest?
From The New Yorker ● Apr. 1, 2019
“Biography is the falsest of the arts,” he said.
From New York Times ● Feb. 5, 2010
The falsest of truisms is that art is communication, as Novelist Brigid Brophy demonstrates with this admirably wicked little book.
From Time Magazine Archive
But they were the falsest thing in the sea and the old man loved to see the big sea turtles eating them.
From "The Old Man and The Sea" by Ernest Hemingway
Some will decide that the first account of a wonderful person must, from the nature of the case, be the falsest; others will decide that in the nature of things it must be the truest.
From The Cradle of the Christ A Study in Primitive Christianity by Octavius Brooks Frothingham
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