canard

His speech should put another canard to rest.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026

They said that distinctive "canard fins", consistent with a PrSM, are visible in the footage.

From BBC ● Apr. 3, 2026

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

That movement swept the United States and Britain in the 1980s and early '90s on account of a cultural myth and canard that child-sacrificing Satanic cults were at work.

From Salon ● Aug. 13, 2023

I met a man on leave to-day, and he says that's the latest canard.

From Non-combatants and Others by Dame Rose Macaulay

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

There are many canards about that generation, but the most persistent is that the boomers were central to the social and cultural events of the nineteen-sixties.

From The New Yorker ● Aug. 18, 2019

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

Performances of your works in the French or Italian language must for the present be looked upon as pia desideria, or else as newspaper canards.

From Correspondence of Wagner and Liszt — Volume 2 by Francis Hueffer