apocryphal

Example Sentences

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The Biden team considers the story apocryphal, a former administration official said, but was impressed by the mythmaking, which is a common tool of war.

From New York Times

There’s a story, possibly apocryphal, about a cosmonaut who conducted a plant-growing experiment aboard a Russian orbiter in the 1970s or ’80s.

From Science Magazine

Recently, McCarthy trumpeted on Fox News an apocryphal report that Biden “is going to control how much meat you can eat.”

From Washington Post

Some of them are so far-fetched that, if it were not for the eyewitness testimony or the video footage, the natural instinct would be to assume they are apocryphal.

From New York Times

Note that this response originally credited “You first” to director Fred Zinnemann, but that story is apocryphal, it seems.

From Washington Post