canard

Example Sentences

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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

This is another quacking canard from the Simpson duck pond.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 24, 2023

The Kremlin meanwhile described the allegation as "just another canard".

From BBC • Apr. 11, 2023

It was wired back to New York and pronounced a canard by the papers there, since the steamer from Charleston was in and they had no news from her.

From Charles Carleton Coffin War Correspondent, Traveller, Author, and Statesman by Griffis, William Elliot