spurious

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As a 25-year high-school math teacher in Alameda, Calif., I’ve listened to all the specious, spurious, self-serving excuses for denying students and families educational choice.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 12, 2026

There are fears of spurious medicines flooding the market.

From BBC • Nov. 3, 2025

It’s not a spurious conclusion: Census data shows that the percentage of women aged 30–44 with no children is higher than it’s been since 1960.

From Salon • Jun. 16, 2025

To argue otherwise, and to forgo it at this moment in particular, involves the denial of some pressing risks and the exaggeration of spurious others.

From Slate • Dec. 4, 2024

They succeeded so well that their spurious product responded to the appropriate chemical tests and deceived the government chemists.

From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson