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baloney

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


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“And he also understands that if you start fooling your shareholders, you will soon believe your own baloney and be fooling yourself as well,” he wrote.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 30, 2025

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

If anyone would have put a stop to such baloney, it would surely be Samantha Jones.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 25, 2023

Somewhere on the road between hogwash and baloney, Washington ran into reality.

From Seattle Times • Jun. 24, 2023

Roberto gave up eating baloney sandwiches when he got a part-time job working at noon at Velva’s Freeze, a hamburger and ice cream store located on Broadway, a few blocks from the high school.

From "Breaking Through" by Francisco Jiménez




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