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She mixes fact and fiction into these mirages of reality where it doesn’t matter whether things are true or false.
From Salon ● Aug. 26, 2026
He also added 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. 25, 2026
Deputy Foreign Minister Kazem Gharibabadi posted on X that the US turn to financial warfare proved Bessent's claims false.
From Barron's ● Aug. 24, 2026
That ruling requires public figures claiming defamation to prove speakers had “actual malice,” meaning they knew the statements were false or else acted with reckless disregard for the truth.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 23, 2026
Soviet citizens felt that they themselves were real patriots, fighting a war against the false patriotism of fascism.
From "A Thousand Sisters" by Elizabeth Wein
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
Dryden's well-known lines in Aurengzebe embody the idea of Macedonius in epigrammatic and felicitous verse: Trust on, and think to-morrow will repay, To-morrow's falser than the former day.
From Political and Literary essays, 1908-1913 by Evelyn Baring
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 the falsest of it all is, that I am disgusted with the Parisians; whereas I admire the Parisians prodigiously.
From Familiar Letters of John Adams and His Wife Abigail Adams During the Revolution with a Memoir of Mrs. Adams by Abigail Adams
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