canard

Example Sentences

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Republicans and other gun-rights advocates went through no end of logic contortions, among them the canard that gun control can’t be working because shootings still happen in places that have gun control laws.

From Seattle Times

Such curiosity is only natural, even if it plays into an old canard about art — and especially movies — inspired by real life, that their accuracy is a direct measure of their truth.

From Los Angeles Times

Hard-line President Ebrahim Raisi decided to repeat a despicable and long-standing canard of Iranian leaders, expressing doubts about the Holocaust on the eve of attending the United Nations General Assembly session in New York.

From Washington Post

But he soon hit on the idea that he could blame his loss on supposed widespread fraud, a canard that had already been debunked by election officials from both parties.

From Seattle Times

And contrary to a conservative canard about the credit sparking a mass exodus from the labor force, the Columbia researchers found that the expansion had no significant effect on whether parents worked.

From Washington Post