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speciousness



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It declined to dig into the research and warn other courts across the country about the speciousness of the warrior gene theory.

From Washington Post Mar. 18, 2021

It was the original 1932 Scarface that laid out the speciousness of the genre.

From The Guardian Jan. 8, 2017

The brilliant Ruby Tandoh recently examined the speciousness of some of the faux-scientific thinking underpinning various of these works.

From The Guardian Jun. 16, 2016

I was among those who spent years protesting the speciousness of this claim, until Foster finally was forced to drop it and concede that John Ford wrote the poem.

From Slate Oct. 27, 2011

This is also requisite, because, from their speciousness, they are likely to mislead such as take what they read for granted.

From Notes and Queries, Number 203, September 17, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. by Bell, George




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