false hope
Example Sentences
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Proponents of a ban have been offering "false hope" to parents, Burrows argued.
From BBC ● Jun. 13, 2026
“Warsh and the Fed would be well-served to continue to give serious consideration to this measure over time, but at the moment, it may be offering false hope for the inflation picture,” Stanley notes.
From Barron's ● May 20, 2026
On the other hand, I understand that false hope is a toxic strain of that remedy.
From Slate ● Mar. 29, 2026
“I would be hopeful that we won’t get to those metrics yet, but I’ve also had a bit of a false hope that oil wouldn’t hit $100 a barrel this quickly as well.”
From MarketWatch ● Mar. 9, 2026
That night, when I went to bed, I was no longer worried about eighth-grade love triangles or whether it was possible that Clearasil was just an elaborate scam that gave insecure teens false hope.
From "Americanized" by Sara Saedi
