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false

[fawls] / fɔls /




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To improve reliability and reduce the risk of false readings, the team proposes combining several probes designed to recognize different cellular structures.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 24, 2026

The Foreign Press Association, which represents international media covering Israel and the Palestinian territories, said it was "deeply alarmed" by false media reports about Bader.

From Barron's ● Oct. 23, 2026

Meanwhile, infrequent fund value updates give endowments a false appearance of stability.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2026

Immigration lawyers say their clients are facing more intense scrutiny and that some have battled false accusations of fraud after applying for a green card or citizenship.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 23, 2026

Inside the bag, hidden in a false bottom, he showed them thousands of dollar bills.

From Nazi Saboteurs by Samantha Seiple

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

But he is never any falser to his vocation than this. 

From Views and Reviews Essays in appreciation by William Ernest Henley

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

Do you not know, my dear Cecil, that 93 you are doing the falsest, cruelest thing by dear Annie in trying to hide her sin from me?

From A World of Girls The Story of a School by L. T. Meade


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