spurious
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This despite the fact that Sheriff Scheyer promulgated the initial spurious press release.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 29, 2026
The weekend edition of the Financial Times reports that a military aircraft entering "spurious" flight data into air traffic control led to a system outage that grounded thousands of planes this week.
From BBC ● Sep. 12, 2026
That timing control helps researchers focus on periods when genuine scintillation light is most likely to be present while filtering out random background signals and other spurious counts.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 17, 2026
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
She stood in the doorway, a few feet behind him, one hand on the doorknob—a portrait of spurious hesitancy about making another full entrance into the room.
From "Franny and Zooey" by J. D. Salinger
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