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“The wake-up call was necessary. It’s been very easy for Western powers in recent decades to be lulled into a sense of false security,” Hood said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026
“Netflix’s statement that Mr. Afram and his attorneys attempted to extort money from Netflix is entirely false, as are the purported facts on which Netflix based this false statement,” according to his amended lawsuit.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 21, 2026
This is not correct, but it’s just false reasoning.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 21, 2026
“In most statistical exercises, it’s not unthinkable that there might be 0.019% false positives – and if that were the case here, that would turn the total conclusions to zero,” he said.
From Salon ● Aug. 21, 2026
After what had happened with Russell, his parents threatening to charge me, even a false accusation was too much to bring to our home.
From "The Red Car to Hollywood" by Jennie Liu
Almost everything that happens afterward feels even falser than the onion.
From New York Times ● Jun. 27, 2017
He tones down his own mugging from Zoolander this time out, retreating to a more familiar reasonable-and-rational act that makes Stiller's much more exaggerated performance look even falser by contrast.
From The Verge ● Feb. 11, 2016
The movie's involved story, full of false leads and falser dialogue, manages the difficult trick of getting more preposterous as it goes along.
From Time Magazine Archive
For the new Writers, building on their ground, thinking them true, add to them, and invent, and draw other Experiments from them, that are falser then the Principles they insisted on.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
Cannot, is false, and that I dare not, falser; I will not come to-day.
From The New Hudson Shakespeare: Julius Cæsar by Ebenezer Charlton Black
Isn’t a novel, as we might have said in high school, one of the falsest things going as well as one of the truest?
From The New Yorker ● Apr. 1, 2019
“Biography is the falsest of the arts,” he said.
From New York Times ● Feb. 5, 2010
The falsest of truisms is that art is communication, as Novelist Brigid Brophy demonstrates with this admirably wicked little book.
From Time Magazine Archive
But they were the falsest thing in the sea and the old man loved to see the big sea turtles eating them.
From "The Old Man and The Sea" by Ernest Hemingway
Do you not know, my dear Cecil, that 93 you are doing the falsest, cruelest thing by dear Annie in trying to hide her sin from me?
From A World of Girls The Story of a School by L. T. Meade
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