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canard

noun as in lie

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From the outset, therefore, the U.S. rejected the canard that “anti-Zionism” somehow isn’t antisemitism.

Bill Gates jumps off a bandwagon that existed in the first place only as a complete and utter canard.

But the right-wing canard concerning left-wing bias persists regardless of the many polls conducted by nonpartisan organizations that have affirmed public radio and television’s status as top among the United States’ most trusted institutions.

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He said “this epidemic denial has become a feature in the mainstream media and it’s based on an industry canard” perpetrated by “people who don’t want us to look at environmental exposures.”

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There’s no consensus that these are actually boys," he said. "This whole thing about trans girls is a canard.

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