half-truth
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Add to that social media and its capacity to spread innuendo, half-truth, fabrication and common ignorance.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 16, 2024
Just a day after the intelligence officer’s report, the Army offered a clarifying half-truth: It identified the object as a crashed weather balloon.
From Slate ● Jun. 29, 2021
Toobin says that this half-truth and falsehood, respectively, were a rhetorical success because “simplicity rarely loses to complexity in battles in the public square.”
From New York Times ● Aug. 5, 2020
Who among us hasn't engaged with a story that has no predictable ending, with a half-truth that, upon further examination, is more fiction than fact?
From Salon ● Jun. 14, 2020
This didn’t, however, stop him from telling my mother a preliminary half-truth, letting her know about the girl but saying they were going to meet in the public park.
From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama
No one should be held hostage to other people’s decisions or half-truths.
From MarketWatch ● Feb. 19, 2026
People have to also be able to evaluate those words, spotting the half-truths, hyperbole, ambiguities, inaccuracies, and values behind those words — and those skills go back to social studies.
From Salon ● Mar. 19, 2025
"In short, you say truths, outright lies and half-truths in the middle, with an equal amount of enthusiasm and sincerity at all times," said Ms Riesman.
From BBC ● Oct. 22, 2024
Technically, I’m sure a product expert could say that some of the product did penetrate into the top layer of wood fibers, but I feel half-truths are whole lies.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 17, 2023
We told him a series of half-truths about why we were in Johannesburg, and that we greatly desired jobs in the mines.
From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela
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