false belief
Example Sentences
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“I start to absorb this false belief that they put together, and I’m accepting it as a truth,” Perez said years later in a deposition about what happened to his mental state during that interrogation.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 1, 2024
This false belief is concerning for progress because it is reducing women's willingness to protest the real causes of gender inequality.
From Science Daily ● May 28, 2024
Do you think a part of that false belief lives on in modern gynecology today?
From Salon ● Mar. 18, 2023
In Dharmakīrti’s case, the nomad believes there is water in the valley based on the false belief that a mirage is an oasis.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 15, 2022
The idea of a deception, a false belief in an injustice suffered by him, was intolerable.
From The Game and the Candle by Eleanor M. (Eleanor Marie) Ingram
