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Ugarte said in a statement that the allegations made by Mazariegos’ campaign “are categorically false and defamatory.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 11, 2026
"The cause that gets the most emphasis right now is AI safety, but I think it would be false to say EA is AI safety," he said.
From Barron's ● Nov. 9, 2026
In a social media post, Waxman wrote that "victims need confidence that the justice process is fair and based on evidence, not myths and false assumptions about rape and trauma".
From BBC ● Nov. 7, 2026
Walmart’s ad business was slow to build, with false starts and resets before it convinced Dallaire to join in 2021.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 6, 2026
Over the years, Washington owned several sets of false teeth.
From "In the Shadow of Liberty" by Kenneth C. Davis
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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