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false

[fawls] / fɔls /




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The FDA, however, doubled down on the severity of the investigation, saying in an X post that the false positive doesn’t change “the overwhelming epidemiological data supporting the current voluntary recall by Taylor Farms.”

From Salon Jul. 25, 2026

On X, the FDA stated, “To clarify, this false positive lab sample does not change the basis for FDA’s ongoing outbreak investigation or the overwhelming epidemiological data supporting the current voluntary recall by Taylor Farms.”

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 24, 2026

It creates the false impression of consensus and momentum where it doesn’t actually exist.

From Slate Jul. 24, 2026

In its apology published in May, The Sun said it accepted that the allegations in the article were "entirely false".

From BBC Jul. 23, 2026

There was one whole room devoted just to clothing and shoes and wigs and false beards.

From "The Detective's Assistant" by Kate Hannigan

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

Nothing is falser than the opinion that society diminishes our mutual liberty; far from that, it secures it, develops it: what it suppresses is not liberty; it is its opposite, passion.

From Lectures on the true, the beautiful and the good by Cousin, Victor

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

But unconfusedly the Parisians raved over even the falsest tones with the same enthusiasm.

From Boris Lensky by Schubin, Ossip




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