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The company apologised and said it would request his case to be reopened and withdrawn "due to the case of false identity".
From BBC ● Aug. 19, 2026
Glucksmann was meanwhile targeted through false information about his partner, the star news anchor Lea Salame who presents the main evening news programme on France 2 TV.
From Barron's ● Aug. 18, 2026
The company has made claims about its accuracy that strain my own credulity; a Pangram blog post last year stated that it had a “1 in 10,000 false positive rate.”
From Slate ● Aug. 18, 2026
“We do not believe conclusions about an author’s work should be drawn from AI-detection tools that have been shown to produce false positives,” said a spokesperson for Simon & Schuster.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 17, 2026
John Harrison Surratt was eventually tracked down through Canada to Europe, where he served, under a false name, in the pope’s army.
From "Chasing Lincoln's Killer" by James L. Swanson
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
No idea could be falser than that the scientist would hamper himself in submitting to the Church.
From Donahoe's Magazine, Volume 15, No. 1, January 1886 by Various
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
If her words were not true, she was indeed the falsest of her sex.
From Nevermore by Rolf Bolderwood
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