half-truth
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“Before he took the time to gather the facts, he painted a negative half-truth about our son and the unfolding case,” she said.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 22, 2023
I think it’s worth exploring at what point a half-truth is more dangerous than a lie.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 29, 2022
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
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
“I told her I needed to think about it on my own for a while,” Joaquin said instead, which he considered a half-truth and therefore not really a lie.
From "Far from the Tree" by Robin Benway
No one should be held hostage to other people’s decisions or half-truths.
From MarketWatch ● Feb. 19, 2026
Initial sessions tend to be colored by weeping, hesitancy and half-truths as the clinician and client get a feel for each other.
From Salon ● Oct. 16, 2024
What Ana didn’t know was that the inspirational story Torres told was based on half-truths and lies.
From BBC ● Jul. 14, 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
My life was a tangled mass of lies and half-truths.
From "Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie" by Jordan Sonnenblick
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