fallacy
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"This is the sunk cost fallacy," he said, adding that "it keeps the addictive behaviour loop".
From Barron's • May 31, 2026
The sunk-cost fallacy tempts people to pay escalating premiums because they’ve paid in for so long.
From MarketWatch • May 6, 2026
One tenacious fallacy about Shakespeare is that his speeches are always clotted with gargantuan words; Macbeth’s “multitudinous seas incarnadine” is a classic example.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 22, 2026
"I think the thing young founders get wrong is they view hours worked in and of itself as necessary and sufficient to think of themselves as productive. And that's where the fallacy lies", he explains.
From BBC • Feb. 8, 2026
It’s a common fallacy to envision these species as arranged in a straight line of descent, with Ergaster begetting Erectus, Erectus begetting the Neanderthals, and the Neanderthals evolving into us.
From "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind" by Yuval Noah Harari
Vocabulary lists containing fallacy
Argumentative Writing
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Power Suffix: -acy
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