falsehood
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Seoul later demanded Ukraine apologise for "announcing a falsehood" and said its actions had seriously damaged trust between the two nations.
From BBC ● Oct. 8, 2026
Writing in The Times, Beard bemoaned that the poem's "erotic puzzles, the teasing ironies, the intriguing questions about truth and falsehood" had been replaced with "a rather ponderous Hollywood message about civilisational decline".
From Barron's ● Jul. 30, 2026
Rather than respond to every claim, Logan says his office picks its battles, intervening only when a falsehood appears likely to reach a wide audience.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 2, 2026
For example, lying isn’t merely uttering a falsehood.
From Salon ● Apr. 13, 2026
In my brief stay in Johannesburg, I had left a trail of mistruths, and in each case, the falsehood had come back to haunt me.
From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela
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O’Brien sees the Nazi allegations as falsehoods that steal attention from the actor’s actual sins.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 2, 2026
But investors can sue over “material” falsehoods and omissions, and they often do.
From Slate ● Sep. 1, 2026
As AI falsehoods explode across social media, often outpacing the capacity of professional fact-checkers, bogus detectors risk adding another layer of deception to an already fractured information ecosystem.
From Barron's ● Mar. 30, 2026
This has allowed purveyors of falsehoods to build audiences on social media and podcasts.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 18, 2026
It is truth they enact, a truth that shames all human falsehoods and deceits.
From "Ophelia" by Lisa Klein
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