false impression
Example Sentences
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"Disseminating such materials or inaccurate information can incite public panic and create a false impression of the country's actual situation," Shamsi said.
From Barron's • Mar. 10, 2026
That shift created the false impression that overall snow extent was expanding.
From Science Daily • Feb. 17, 2026
But social media presents a new problem: coordinated influence that hides behind armies of avatars, creating a false impression of grassroots support.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 5, 2026
His mission now was to take the reins from Netanyahu, or rather to foster the false impression he’d held them all along.
From Salon • Jun. 22, 2025
The parade of guilty people through America’s courtrooms gives the false impression to the public—as well as to judges—that when the police have a “hunch,” it makes sense to let them act on it.
From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander
