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lie detector

noun as in machine for gauging truth

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Although they dress like nuns styled by Jean Paul Gaultier and hold titles like Reverend Mother, they adhere to a regimen of martial arts training and learn how to be living lie detectors.

From Salon

Employees in the DEA’s polygraph unit, which vets prospective agents, reported being pressured to pass candidates after they failed a lie detector test, report says.

Just a week earlier, he had been filming for the show, during which he failed a lie detector test.

From BBC

In a key clip, Ms Callaghan sobbed and shouted when the results of a lie detector test were revealed.

From BBC

On the day of the recording, Mrs Thaxter said her lodger had phoned and said he had failed the lie detector test.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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