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false trail
noun as in red herring
Example Sentences
“So far, it looks like an attempt to create a false trail,” state TV journalist Andrei Medvedev wrote on Telegram.
The court heard Mr McCullum had thrown Ms Newborough's phone into roadside bushes in Coalville on his way to dump her body and Mr Cammegh said he continued to text her "to lay a false trail".
Francis looked for numbers on the mailboxes, nosing into one false trail after another and backing out again, cursing, grinding the gears.
We zigged and we zagged, and when he wasn’t packing our distraught Elder, Chi-Boy was off leaving false trail leads for any potential followers, his arm held closed with duct tape since there was no time to properly stitch it up.
They included a body double who sought to leave a false trail of surveillance video indicating that Mr. Khashoggi was still alive, and a forensic doctor who the Turks say arrived with a bone saw that was used to dismember Mr. Khashoggi’s body.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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