canard

Bill Gates jumps off a bandwagon that existed in the first place only as a complete and utter canard.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 31, 2025

This year, let’s agree to dispel the canard that “summer reading” or “beach books” are something frivolous or less important than the serious literature celebrated in austere outlets like the London Review of Books.

From Seattle Times ● May 14, 2024

This is another quacking canard from the Simpson duck pond.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 24, 2023

The Kremlin meanwhile described the allegation as "just another canard".

From BBC ● Apr. 11, 2023

We shall assume that the whole thing was merely a foolish newspaper canard.

From The Weight of the Crown by White, Fred M. (Fred Merrick)

Let’s examine some of the other common canards about gun violence and gun laws, and start thinking about how to move the needle.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 1, 2022

In fact, she regards Darwin’s work as “impressive,” and makes no argument for a young Earth, the fixity of species or any of the other usual creationist canards.

From Scientific American ● Apr. 17, 2018

I’d rather see Facebook make mistakes in pursuit of a better one than cling to the old canards about algorithmic neutrality.

From Slate ● Jan. 25, 2018

This is one of the many canards pushed by the “hoaxers,” as they call themselves.

From The New Yorker ● Nov. 22, 2016

These fanciful canards grew more nauseating as the Siege advanced in seriousness, until anything in the nature of news was deemed of necessity a lie.

From The Siege of Kimberley by Phelan, T.