false
Example Sentences
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In popular usage, it assumes the thing signified must be false, whereas people do conspire, and it is reasonable to devise theories about their schemes.
In a motion filed in August to get the suit tossed, Costner said he had reviewed LaBella’s complaint and was “shocked at the false and misleading allegations she was making.”
From Los Angeles Times
If ships are “stateless,” or flying a false flag of a nation, then they can be subject to U.S. jurisdiction, Baumgartner and other legal experts say.
He also stressed that the process had been carried out by a team that included all relevant Israeli security and government bodies, and that "claims of a sweeping or mass rejection are false and misleading".
From BBC
Specifically, the announcement noted that officials are concerned about radar interference "clutter" that can obscure real moving targets or, conversely, create false ones.
From BBC
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