false impression
Example Sentences
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That shift created the false impression that overall snow extent was expanding.
From Science Daily • Feb. 17, 2026
People made travel bookings under the false impression they had tickets for the Wembley gigs, and were left disappointed when they realised it was a scam.
From BBC • Dec. 11, 2025
When revenue flows both ways, gross sales numbers can give a false impression of AI demand, Castagno says.
From Barron's • Oct. 9, 2025
She feels she had a false impression of the job market’s health when she walked away from her last position.
From The Wall Street Journal • Sep. 18, 2025
Insensitive to this change of meaning, scholars frequently translate the word experimentum in Latin texts as ‘experiment’, thus often giving a totally false impression of its meaning, which is commonly ‘experience’.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
