canard
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Bill Gates jumps off a bandwagon that existed in the first place only as a complete and utter canard.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 31, 2025
This year, let’s agree to dispel the canard that “summer reading” or “beach books” are something frivolous or less important than the serious literature celebrated in austere outlets like the London Review of Books.
From Seattle Times • May 14, 2024
La Tour d'Argent rose to fame in the 19th Century and gained notoriety for its signature duck dish, canard au sang, which translates to bloody duck and uses the bird's juices to make a sauce.
From BBC • Jan. 29, 2024
That movement swept the United States and Britain in the 1980s and early '90s on account of a cultural myth and canard that child-sacrificing Satanic cults were at work.
From Salon • Aug. 13, 2023
In a few weeks the kale came up but turned out to be a canard.
From Nye and Riley's Wit and Humor (Poems and Yarns) by Nye, Bill
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