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canard

[kuh-nahrd, ka-nar] / kəˈnɑrd, kaˈnar /


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They said that distinctive "canard fins", consistent with a PrSM, are visible in the footage.

From BBC • Apr. 3, 2026

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

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 31, 2025

This year, let’s agree to dispel the canard that “summer reading” or “beach books” are something frivolous or less important than the serious literature celebrated in austere outlets like the London Review of Books.

From Seattle Times • May 14, 2024

That movement swept the United States and Britain in the 1980s and early '90s on account of a cultural myth and canard that child-sacrificing Satanic cults were at work.

From Salon • Aug. 13, 2023

"Pray relieve Lady Luce's anxiety, Nell, and tell her that she has amused us with a canard too ridiculous to be anything but false," he said tenderly.

From Nell, of Shorne Mills or, One Heart's Burden by Garvice, Charles




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