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Two recently sued StubHub, the largest independent ticket resale marketplace in the U.S., for false advertising.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 11, 2026
Ugarte said in a statement that the allegations made by Mazariegos’ campaign “are categorically false and defamatory.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 11, 2026
"It is false advertisement, it is totally off-putting and really frustrating," she said.
From BBC ● Nov. 7, 2026
The investigation aims to find "the authors of the emails who disseminated this false information... and to determine any potential links they may have to foreign powers", the office of the Paris prosecutor told AFP.
From Barron's ● Nov. 7, 2026
They were stuffed with electric razors, cigarette lighters, stockings, lipstick, perfume, and one set of false teeth.
From "Fallout: Spies, Superbombs, and the Ultimate Cold War Showdown" by Steve Sheinkin
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
Nothing is falser than the opinion that society diminishes our mutual liberty; far from that, it secures it, develops it: what it suppresses is not liberty; it is its opposite, passion.
From Lectures on the true, the beautiful and the good by Victor Cousin
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
He is the falsest rogue and the greatest foe to knights-errant living.
From Historic Tales, Vol 14 (of 15) The Romance of Reality by Charles Morris
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