fallacy

Example Sentences

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“A major fallacy is assuming that policies that work in one country will automatically work in another,” Josh Michaud, the associate director of global health and public health policy at KFF, told Salon.

From Salon • Jan. 11, 2026

The sunk-cost fallacy tempts people to pay escalating premiums because they’ve paid for so long.

From MarketWatch • Nov. 15, 2025

“There’s this fallacy that companies were lowering the bar,” she says.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 13, 2025

"We know lots of children struggle. The idea that the school years are the best years of your life is a fallacy."

From BBC • May 3, 2025

Fossils, for example, and whether their existence disproved the Book of Genesis; Brother Mendel’s experiments on the sexual reproduction of the sweet pea; the fallacy of laudable pus.

From "The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate" by Jacqueline Kelly