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This is not correct, but it’s just false reasoning.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 21, 2026
“Names were presented. ... What was demonstrated was the use of digital platforms, of social media, to amplify and generate false news.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 21, 2026
“In most statistical exercises, it’s not unthinkable that there might be 0.019% false positives – and if that were the case here, that would turn the total conclusions to zero,” he said.
From Salon ● Aug. 21, 2026
He was sentenced to three years and two months at Bristol Crown Court on Thursday, after pleading guilty to four charges of fraud by false representation.
From BBC ● Aug. 20, 2026
It is Ward, so like and yet so unlike your father, who has cured me of my false hopes.
From "The Long-Lost Home" 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
This lends a false colour to the picture, which the general reader is pretty sure to make still falser.
From The Discovery of America Vol. 1 (of 2) with some account of Ancient America and the Spanish Conquest by John Fiske
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
Now, why did Kitty, who was the falsest thing on earth, who was in tune with every kind of falsity, by merely suffering somehow remind us of reality?
From The Return of the Soldier by Rebecca West
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