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Example Sentences
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Their case had been scuppered by the so-called "30 second rule", a false conclusion adopted by the court presuming that every person who was killed in the disaster had been unconscious within 30 seconds.
From BBC
Saudi Arabia rejected the report, calling it "negative, false and unacceptable" and MBS has denied any role in the murder.
From BBC
When a character isn’t what they seem, making the false front too emotionally relatable is counterproductive; the viewer, using myself as an example, will feel cheated, annoyed.
From Los Angeles Times
The main effect of her suit was that Lake was ordered to pay $33,000 to the witnesses who helped disprove Lake’s false claims in court.
From Salon
The tone is established by the film’s very first interviewee, who struggles to complete the sentence beginning “Heaven is” amid a flurry of pauses and false starts.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
