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Clippers president of business operations Gillian Zucker was suspended without pay for one year for “being primarily and directly culpable for the impermissible endorsement arrangements and for providing false and misleading statements to investigators.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 14, 2026
The rumor was false; the dynamic was familiar.
From Salon ● Sep. 13, 2026
They chalk it up to marketing wrapped in false alarmism.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 13, 2026
She said that during police interviews McDevitt "had provided repeated and detailed false accounts without any pressure being applied on him of his own accord".
From BBC ● Sep. 11, 2026
And of course he did not say the false, idle words.
From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom
Almost everything that happens afterward feels even falser than the onion.
From New York Times ● Jun. 27, 2017
He tones down his own mugging from Zoolander this time out, retreating to a more familiar reasonable-and-rational act that makes Stiller's much more exaggerated performance look even falser by contrast.
From The Verge ● Feb. 11, 2016
The movie's involved story, full of false leads and falser dialogue, manages the difficult trick of getting more preposterous as it goes along.
From Time Magazine Archive
For the new Writers, building on their ground, thinking them true, add to them, and invent, and draw other Experiments from them, that are falser then the Principles they insisted on.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
And yet she could not, if she would, bear falser witness than she already had done against Rebecca Nurse and other women of equally good family and reputation.
From Dulcibel A Tale of Old Salem by Howard Pyle
Isn’t a novel, as we might have said in high school, one of the falsest things going as well as one of the truest?
From The New Yorker ● Apr. 1, 2019
“Biography is the falsest of the arts,” he said.
From New York Times ● Feb. 5, 2010
The falsest of truisms is that art is communication, as Novelist Brigid Brophy demonstrates with this admirably wicked little book.
From Time Magazine Archive
But they were the falsest thing in the sea and the old man loved to see the big sea turtles eating them.
From "The Old Man and The Sea" by Ernest Hemingway
Some will decide that the first account of a wonderful person must, from the nature of the case, be the falsest; others will decide that in the nature of things it must be the truest.
From The Cradle of the Christ A Study in Primitive Christianity by Octavius Brooks Frothingham
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