rumor
Example Sentences
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The statement, delivered by a voice-over announcer on state television, did little to dispel rumors about the leader’s physical health.
She said she was in her mid-20s when rumors began to circulate that Brooklyn Avenue would be renamed after Chavez.
From Los Angeles Times
Like most Americans, we had never seen a McDonald’s, though rumors of their existence were rampant.
In August 2024, media executive Jeff Shell made his way to his lawyer’s office in the Los Angeles neighborhood of Century City to meet someone he had been told was behind nasty rumors about him.
Driven by rumors of Severus’ impending death, some bored soldiers proclaimed one of his brutish sons as their emperor.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
