falsehood
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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
British policy toward China, Lord Patten continued, had rested on a "falsehood" that "in order to do business with them, we must avoid saying anything they don't like or doing anything that they don't like".
From BBC ● Jan. 26, 2026
To secure conviction, prosecutors must prove a falsehood was made “knowingly and willfully” and be “materially” false, fictitious or fraudulent.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 12, 2026
It’s like trying to imagine any falsehood: that the sun revolves around the earth; that humans can fly; that the world is nonviolent.
From "A Heart in a Body in the World" by Deb Caletti
But voice notes broadcast over WhatsApp add a new dimension to the problem, supercharging rumors and falsehoods and spreading them to people who might not competently read or write, if they are literate at all.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 16, 2026
Knowing someone — or of someone — who is gay or lesbian has long tended to dispel falsehoods and quell fears that might exist.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 7, 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
AI programmes have vastly simplified tasks in the workplace but generative AI systems are known for their ability to "hallucinate" and assert falsehoods as fact, even sometimes inventing sources for the inaccurate information.
From BBC ● Mar. 3, 2026
It is truth they enact, a truth that shames all human falsehoods and deceits.
From "Ophelia" by Lisa Klein
Vocabulary lists containing falsehood
A Web of Lies
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