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In this group, it detected nearly 80% of liver cancer cases at a specificity slightly above 90%, corresponding to a false positive rate of less than 10%.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 11, 2026
Joe Biden’s clandestine 2023 train trip to Ukraine involved a false public schedule, but it also included two journalists—and everyone else found out about it as soon as Biden arrived.
From Slate ● Aug. 11, 2026
Legal experts say Bryce Harper might have grounds to sue FanDuel for false endorsement and invasion of privacy after the sportsbook sent the player’s video to a customer.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 11, 2026
In rogue AI agent incidents and many other experiments, AI has hidden what it was doing or generated false information.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 10, 2026
Cobblers were spies who specialized in making false documents, like birth certificates and passports, necessary to create a cover identity.
From "City Spies" by James Ponti
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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
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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
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None the less, to rescue the child, even if she had to become falser still, would be in some measure an atonement for the treachery to which she had already lent herself.
From Georgina's Reasons by Henry James
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
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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
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But unconfusedly the Parisians raved over even the falsest tones with the same enthusiasm.
From Boris Lensky by Ossip Schubin