false hope

Example Sentences

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“Warsh and the Fed would be well-served to continue to give serious consideration to this measure over time, but at the moment, it may be offering false hope for the inflation picture,” Stanley notes.

From Barron's • May 20, 2026

“I would be hopeful that we won’t get to those metrics yet, but I’ve also had a bit of a false hope that oil wouldn’t hit $100 a barrel this quickly as well.”

From MarketWatch • Mar. 9, 2026

“We learned the hard way to be careful, there’s been a lot of false hope in the past,” said Rotem Cooper, whose parents were both kidnapped by Hamas from their kibbutz of Nir Oz.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 10, 2025

For people facing life-threatening illnesses, such false hope can be deadly.

From Slate • Sep. 29, 2025

She hadn’t told Klaus about her plan, because she didn’t want to give him false hope, so without waking him, she gathered up her grappling hook and tiptoed out of the room.

From "The Bad Beginning" by Lemony Snicket