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urban legend
noun as in widely distributed untruth
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As The Miami Herald declared in a recent headline, “Obamacare enrollees become urban legend.”
From The Daily Beast
I always thought it was an urban legend that the VW Bus is the most dangerous vehicle ever made.
From The Daily Beast
In her deposition, she told plaintiffs attorneys that she considered drug diversion an “urban legend” and a “folktale.”
From The Daily Beast
Think of the readiness to accept the (utterly bogus) urban legend about the Super Bowl leading to wife-beating.
From The Daily Beast
But in 2009, McGillis squashed that urban legend in an interview with the San Diego Gay and Lesbian News.
From The Daily Beast
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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