myth
Example Sentences
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And with stocks wobbling the past two weeks, those numbers help counteract Wall Street’s latest myth: that today’s market, dominated by giant tech companies, is a monster that will stomp your index funds to bits.
According to myth, the war began after Helen of Sparta was taken to Troy.
From Science Daily
Jesse Owens, an African-American track and field athlete, won four gold medals at the 1936 Games, crushing the Nazi myth of Aryan racial supremacy.
From BBC
If the idea of romantic destiny is, as you call it in your book, “the weakest idea ever promoted by scientists,” what is your number-one dating myth you feel your personal research has debunked?
From Los Angeles Times
Appalled by the incomprehensible waste—Hiroshima was still weeks away—he searched for precedent in myth and antiquity, alighting at once on the North African city of Carthage.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
