false impression
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With the proceeds, these managers often buy winning stocks in order to create the false impression that they had owned them all along.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 12, 2026
It creates the false impression of consensus and momentum where it doesn’t actually exist.
From Slate ● Jul. 24, 2026
That shift created the false impression that overall snow extent was expanding.
From Science Daily ● Feb. 17, 2026
But social media presents a new problem: coordinated influence that hides behind armies of avatars, creating a false impression of grassroots support.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 5, 2026
The parade of guilty people through America’s courtrooms gives the false impression to the public—as well as to judges—that when the police have a “hunch,” it makes sense to let them act on it.
From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander
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