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He said these include what facilities are available at the airport they are being diverted to and how the plane can continue onwards should it turn out to be a false threat.
From BBC ● Nov. 3, 2026
An indictment charging a false-statement offense would usually contain nothing more than an identification of the defendant, the date of the offense, the location where the offense occurred, and the specific false statement.
From Slate ● Nov. 3, 2026
From a survival perspective, responding unnecessarily to a false alarm may sometimes be preferable to overlooking a genuine danger.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 3, 2026
It’s a false rhyme — a blatant false rhyme.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 2, 2026
Whether Leah truly believed or whether she kept up a false story to propel herself into the comfortable middle class cannot be known.
From "American Spirits" by Barb Rosenstock
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
"I don't know which are the falser," he said to himself, "the mock courtesies or the mock indignations of statesmen."
From Phineas Redux by Anthony Trollope
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
He is the falsest rogue and the greatest foe to knights-errant living.
From Historic Tales, Vol 14 (of 15) The Romance of Reality by Charles Morris
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