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false

[fawls] / fɔls /




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Taken together, this presents a false dichotomy: AI will either end disease and suffering or inflict it in untold measure.

From Salon ● Sep. 30, 2026

"There is a real danger that electronic monitoring creates a false sense of assurance if the technology is not matched by effective professional practice," said Martin Jones CBE, HM Chief Inspector of Probation.

From BBC ● Sep. 29, 2026

But Mayfield said investors are finding it hard to have faith in even optimistic-seeming developments on the Iran conflict after so many false starts and shifting headlines.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 29, 2026

At a court hearing in downtown Los Angeles, Se Youn “Steve” Kim pleaded guilty to filing a false tax return, while his brother, Hee Youn “Ted” Kim, pleaded guilty to tax evasion.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 29, 2026

“There is not a soul in London who can direct us to Muffinshire Lane, it seems,” she announced with false cheer.

From "The Hidden Gallery" by Maryrose Wood

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

When men are falling, false friends grow falser; even true ones becoming cold.

From The Death Shot A Story Retold by Mayne Reid

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

Without a hope, even the falsest, she must have gone mad.

From Heart of the Blue Ridge by Waldron Baily




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