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It shows the conjecture is false for every dimension larger than 2, with the original conjecture in two dimensions remaining open.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 6, 2026
The prosecutor, Jonathan Polnay KC, told the court that Gadd said in a police interview he did not know the complainant, and that the allegations against him were false.
From BBC ● Aug. 5, 2026
None of this makes the show’s basic proposition false.
From Salon ● Aug. 5, 2026
In doing so, they say, Wright violated federal law, which bars individuals from making materially false, fictitious or fraudulent statements or representations to Congress.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 5, 2026
They both laugh, and my smile is as bright and false as yellow paint.
From "The Light in Hidden Places" by Sharon Cameron
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 son is falser, falser than the sire!"
From Andromache A Play in Three Acts by Murray, Gilbert
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
I had taken his hand for farewell, and, inevitably laughing, but as the falsest of notes, I gave it a shake.
From The Sacred Fount by James, Henry
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