spurious
Example Sentences
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Machines usually fail in a patterned way, unable to engage in abstract reasoning and often making “spurious correlations,” he said.
From New York Times
Ukraine - which was part of the Soviet Union and itself suffered devastation at the hands of Hitler's forces - rejects those parallels as spurious pretexts for a war of conquest.
From Reuters
Ukraine - which was part of the Soviet Union and itself suffered devastation at the hands of Hitler's forces - rejects those parallels as spurious pretexts for a war of imperial conquest.
From Reuters
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention gave teachers unions cover as they avoided teaching and extorted benefits on spurious “public health” grounds.
From Washington Post
Trump's suit made the spurious allegation that all those people had "orchestrated a malicious conspiracy ... in the hope of ... rigging the 2016 Presidential Election in favor of Hillary Clinton."
From Salon
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
