false impression
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It's best to exclude penalties as refereeing decisions and defensive clumsiness give a false impression of how good teams actually are at attacking and defending, especially at this early stage.
From BBC ● Sep. 23, 2026
It creates the false impression of consensus and momentum where it doesn’t actually exist.
From Slate ● Jul. 24, 2026
That shift created the false impression that overall snow extent was expanding.
From Science Daily ● Feb. 17, 2026
His emphasis on supplements has given the false impression that the measles can be safely treated this way.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 11, 2026
One reason so many people have a false impression of the economic well-being of African Americans, as a group, is that poverty and unemployment statistics do not include people who are behind bars.
From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander
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