rumor
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You will likely encounter it only as a rumor from the deepest bowels of the world’s top intelligence establishments.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026
Savor a celebrity rumor that was too good to be true: For a moment this week, it seemed like Channing Tatum was using a burner Instagram account to leave snarky comments on his ex’s posts.
From Slate ● Sep. 24, 2026
We haven’t seen a “spike peak” buy signal since early last June — an extraordinarily long time for VIX to go without spiking upward on some negative news or rumor of some sort.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 18, 2026
Marx’s Neue Rheinische Zeitung newspaper even spread the rumor that Herzen was a Russian government spy.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2026
In Lima a few days later, Jaime Bayona heard a rumor that someone in the audience had called the director of Peru’s TB program and told him, “Paul Farmer says you’re killing patients.”
From "Mountains Beyond Mountains" by Tracy Kidder and Michael French
Earlier this week, as rumors swirled that OpenAI was preparing to drop an unprecedented barrage of proofs, mathematicians scrambled to publish their own AI-assisted work before they could be scooped.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 7, 2026
The professional ballroom dancer also slammed rumors that she was at all dissatisfied with her celebrity pairing alongside 55-year-old Rodriguez, the talk show sidekick to Jimmy Kimmel on “Jimmy Kimmel Live!”
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 30, 2026
Holland and Zendaya first met when they were cast alongside each other in “Spider-Man: Homecoming,” and rumors soon began to surface that their on-screen romance may have turned into a real-life love.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 23, 2026
For months, rumors circulated that he had actually died, was on life support or was otherwise incapacitated.
From Salon ● Sep. 17, 2026
Actually it was only eight chairs, but these are the kinds of rumors that are good for business.
From "Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish" by Pablo Cartaya
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