false impression
Example Sentences
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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
But social media presents a new problem: coordinated influence that hides behind armies of avatars, creating a false impression of grassroots support.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 5, 2026
When revenue flows both ways, gross sales numbers can give a false impression of AI demand, Castagno says.
From Barron's ● Oct. 9, 2025
Insensitive to this change of meaning, scholars frequently translate the word experimentum in Latin texts as ‘experiment’, thus often giving a totally false impression of its meaning, which is commonly ‘experience’.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
