false impression
Example Sentences
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It's best to exclude penalties as refereeing decisions and defensive clumsiness give a false impression of how good teams actually are at attacking and defending, especially at this early stage.
From BBC ● Sep. 23, 2026
It creates the false impression of consensus and momentum where it doesn’t actually exist.
From Slate ● Jul. 24, 2026
According to the researchers, using mental verbs to describe AI can create a false impression.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 19, 2026
Some critics claim the paucity of opposition provided in Group K may have given a false impression of England's quality.
From Barron's ● Nov. 16, 2025
Insensitive to this change of meaning, scholars frequently translate the word experimentum in Latin texts as ‘experiment’, thus often giving a totally false impression of its meaning, which is commonly ‘experience’.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
