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baloney

[buh-loh-nee] / bəˈloʊ ni /
NOUN
nonsense
Synonyms
Antonyms
STRONG


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She clarifies, “you know that saying, ‘No man is an island,’ well, Reg thought that was baloney.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 1, 2026

Antoni, who has a PhD in economics, has previously criticised the BLS, questioning its methodology and calling its statistics "phoney baloney".

From BBC • Aug. 11, 2025

To non-lawyers, this may seem to cut the baloney mighty thin.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 6, 2024

Now the principal proponent of that theory may also testify that it was baloney.

From Salon • Oct. 21, 2023

“That’s...something like three hundred miles out of our way to get to Venice. Then we’d have to backtrack down the Adriatic. And you said something about baloney dwarfs?”

From "The House of Hades" by Rick Riordan




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