false hope
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Young went over in the corner to give England false hope, but in front of their delirious fans Tonga scored their fourth try as Katoa's grubber kick exploited defensive gaps for Olakau'atu to touch down.
From BBC ● Oct. 17, 2026
The World Cup “gave us false hope to recover from a negative year,” one Los Angeles hotelier said, according to the report.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 13, 2026
Call this the triumph of false hope over experience.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 12, 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
Maybe I had given myself false hope, as if there really could be more to me than just a tangled mess.
From "Rump: The (Fairly) True Story of Rumpelstilskin" by Liesl Shurtliff
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