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The subsequent regulatory proceedings confirmed that Zeldin’s statement was false.
From Slate ● Aug. 2, 2026
Asked by the BBC on Friday if he is planning legal action over the government missteps that led to the charges and false public accusations, he declined to comment.
From BBC ● Aug. 1, 2026
Despite a false positive sample of lettuce supplied by Taylor Farms, the FDA says it is still looking at produce from the company as the source of the current oubreak.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 31, 2026
Agbaje describes the adiposity rebound theory as a BMI-driven "false discovery."
From Science Daily ● Jul. 31, 2026
A false wall ran the length of the bedroom on the first floor.
From "Code Name Kingfisher" by Liz Kessler
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
The morrow would repay—that morrow which is falser than the former day.
From The Paliser case by Saltus, Edgar
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
How had she lived while that word was uttered to her! how had she lived to swear that falsest oath!
From The Bertrams by Trollope, Anthony
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