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“Netflix’s statement that Mr. Afram and his attorneys attempted to extort money from Netflix is entirely false, as are the purported facts on which Netflix based this false statement,” according to his amended lawsuit.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 21, 2026
This is not correct, but it’s just false reasoning.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 21, 2026
He said that between July 2020 and October 2021, Gibson used false names, had invented business opportunities, and had used fake bank statements to show apparent substantial wealth to persuade them to hand money over.
From BBC ● Aug. 20, 2026
The changes will also work for teens who signed up for an account with a false birth date or who use ChatGPT without logging in.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 18, 2026
It would stay there until he moved it to the trunk: the false bottom was built to match the Mona Lisa’s measurements.
From "The Mona Lisa Vanishes" by Nicholas Day
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
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
No idea could be falser than that the scientist would hamper himself in submitting to the Church.
From Donahoe's Magazine, Volume 15, No. 1, January 1886 by Various
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
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
The force of the antithesis is increased if the words on which the beat of the contrast falls are alliterative, or otherwise similar in sound, as—“The fairest but the falsest of her sex.”
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 2 "Anjar" to "Apollo" by Various
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