apocryphal
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Havel tells the apocryphal story of a greengrocer who refuses to place a sign proclaiming “Workers of the world, unite!” in his shop window.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 30, 2026
Much of “Flour” is concerned with the woman’s conversation with her driver about a parable from the apocryphal Gospel of Thomas that he is translating from Coptic—a tale, he says, about emptiness and unknowing.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 14, 2025
There is an apocryphal story that as the book landed on desks around Hollywood, everyone flipped to the index to see what Phillips had written about them.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 8, 2024
This apocryphal trivia hasn’t been entirely debunked; it’s more accurate to say that it is roundly doubted.
From Salon • Mar. 8, 2024
In one possibly apocryphal story, doctors once trained a homeless man to do routine lab tests because there was no one else available.
From "Blink" by Malcolm Gladwell
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