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In response to a text message sent to a number listed for the address, someone replied that Matson’s claims are false.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 3, 2026
Namora cited the spread of false information about protest locations and student arrests, which he said are "likely intended to spread fear and discourage civilians from taking part in the demonstrations".
From Barron's ● Sep. 3, 2026
Mozambique's President Daniel Chapo publicly condemned widespread rumours and deaths, saying the claims were false and the government had found no medical evidence to suggest anyone had lost a part of their body.
From BBC ● Sep. 3, 2026
He’s just employing the classic false promises of any grifter running a get-rich-quick scheme.
From Salon ● Sep. 2, 2026
Just stewed and simmered, lurking beneath the lid of false security I’d dropped on top of it.
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
Air and water, 'tis generally believed, are the common property of mankind; but nothing is falser in fact as well as theory.
From Cannibals all! or, Slaves without masters by George Fitzhugh
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
"Oh, sir," exclaimed Mrs. Edmonstone, "do you think there is no spark of goodness in the worst natures? of truth in the falsest? of generosity in the most selfish?"
From At Large by E. W. (Ernest William) Hornung
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