false appearance

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One user’s Google Gemini chatbot fabricated calendar and email details, creating the false appearance of a data breach.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 14, 2026

Background subtraction is sometimes done in high-pressure superconductivity studies, but the practice is controversial because it can give the false appearance of zero resistance.

From Science Magazine • Sep. 27, 2023

He held investor meetings at homes in the Hollywood Hills and traveled with armed security guards to “create the false appearance of wealth and success,” prosecutors said.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 2, 2022

Those seeking change contend that, in addition to forcing nonbinary performers into boxes, gendered categories give the false appearance that prime roles for women are far more prevalent than they actually are.

From New York Times • Aug. 5, 2021

The nodules of pyrites, often picked up on beaches, with their false appearance of having been melted by intense heat, pass muster easily with children and sailor folk for the genuine thunderbolts.

From Falling in Love With Other Essays on More Exact Branches of Science by Allen, Grant