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“These databases will always lag behind innovation and can be easily circumvented and generate false positives that block legal designs and wrongly flag everyday makers,” she said at a Senate hearing this month.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 19, 2026
Faith Kates' lawyer told us in a statement that any claim her client had any knowledge or involvement in Epstein's purported trafficking is false and defamatory.
From BBC ● Jul. 18, 2026
Hawaii, decided on Wednesday, concerns convictions built on false forensic evidence.
From Slate ● Jul. 17, 2026
Misinformation and in some cases superstition are playing a role, and health workers’ attention is turning to how to combat false news.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 16, 2026
They were stuffed with electric razors, cigarette lighters, stockings, lipstick, perfume, and one set of false teeth.
From "Fallout: Spies, Superbombs, and the Ultimate Cold War Showdown" by Steve Sheinkin
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
No falser or more disastrous doctrine could be promulgated.
From Feminism and Sex-Extinction by Kenealy, Arabella
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
Do you not know, my dear Cecil, that 93 you are doing the falsest, cruelest thing by dear Annie in trying to hide her sin from me?
From A World of Girls The Story of a School by Meade, L. T.
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