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This is my latest attempt to turn myself into a European football fan after far too many false starts to count.
From Slate ● Aug. 28, 2026
As universities crack down on AI, extreme monitoring policies and false accusations are fueling a deep mistrust between professors and students.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 27, 2026
But he cautioned that no system was fool proof, and that some women's support groups have in the past voiced concern that such systems might give a false sense of security.
From BBC ● Aug. 26, 2026
In an all-hands town hall, if you have 800 people in attendance, asking for questions at the end is a false mechanism.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 25, 2026
It is a false forest to match the false suns.
From "Wayward Creatures" by Dayna Lorentz
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
Cannot, is false, and that I dare not, falser; I will not come to-day.
From The New Hudson Shakespeare: Julius Cæsar by Ebenezer Charlton Black
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
To get away like that was a mistake—a very grave mistake—the falsest of false moves....
From A Nest of Spies by Marcel Allain
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