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"The cause that gets the most emphasis right now is AI safety, but I think it would be false to say EA is AI safety," he said.
From Barron's ● Nov. 9, 2026
In a social media post, Waxman wrote that "victims need confidence that the justice process is fair and based on evidence, not myths and false assumptions about rape and trauma".
From BBC ● Nov. 7, 2026
Walmart’s ad business was slow to build, with false starts and resets before it convinced Dallaire to join in 2021.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 6, 2026
Prosecutors alleged in the complaint that the applications included false and fraudulent statements such as the number of employees and average monthly payroll.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 5, 2026
Joey Guerrero is one of the few residents at Carville who isn’t using a fake name and false identity.
From "At Last She Stood" by Erin Entrada Kelly
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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
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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
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A definition may be neither absolutely true nor absolutely false; but of two definitions of the same thing, one of them may be truer or falser than the other.
From Manhood of Humanity. by Alfred Korzybski
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
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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
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The good colors are at times the expensive ones, but as there are no cheaper ones which are permanent to take their places, it would be the falsest of economy to use others.
From The Painter in Oil A complete treatise on the principles and technique necessary to the painting of pictures in oil colors by Daniel Burleigh Parkhurst
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