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falsify

[fawl-suh-fahy] / ˈfɔl sə faɪ /


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In one instance in Nature, he said, “the methods used to falsify the data were incredibly primitive.”

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 2, 2026

The policies are often completely bogus, are invalid because they falsify information to bring the price down, or are cancelled soon after purchase.

From BBC May 19, 2026

President Emmanuel Macron on Wednesday said that it was "intolerable" that the revision books for the French school leavers' exam, the baccalaureat, "falsify the facts" about the "terrorist and antisemitic attacks by Hamas".

From Barron's Jan. 16, 2026

So he allegedly coordinated with AlHusseini to falsify financial records and inflate AlHusseini’s worth by tens of millions of dollars.

From Los Angeles Times Oct. 14, 2025

To ensure secrecy held up, Nixon had the Air Force falsify reports on the bombing runs to look as if they took place over South Vietnam.

From "Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam" by Elizabeth Partridge

If someone intentionally falsifies their disclosure reports, they can face criminal penalties — a warning printed below the signature line of the reports themselves.

From Salon Apr. 13, 2023

It falsifies not just Black history but American history.

From Washington Post Feb. 2, 2023

Treasury has said that anyone who falsifies documentation or otherwise hides the true origin or price of Russian oil would face consequences under the domestic law of jurisdictions implementing the price cap.

From Reuters Sep. 20, 2022

Veteran rancher John Landsburg faces federal bureaucracy when his old enemy, Tap Peterson, falsifies documents and alleges that Landsburg doesn’t own his family ranch.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 18, 2020

Some painters think this falsifies pitch, and prefer to keep the eyes wide open, but to focus them on some point beyond the values they are studying.

From The Painter in Oil A complete treatise on the principles and technique necessary to the painting of pictures in oil colors by Parkhurst, Daniel Burleigh

Prosecutors say he falsified title insurance policies that showed the bank would have a first lien on the underlying collateral if the loan went bad, when in fact it did not.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 6, 2026

Prosecutors also allege the company falsified safety records.

From BBC May 12, 2026

When the public hears about scientific fraud, the focus often falls on isolated cases involving falsified data, plagiarism or retracted studies.

From Science Daily Mar. 7, 2026

“I confirm that I was responsible for the falsified certificates,” Zamora added in the statement.

From The Wall Street Journal Feb. 23, 2026

He falsified his political creed to the German Consulate.

From Nazi Saboteurs by Samantha Seiple

The firm would represent the president in appeals of his felony convictions for falsifying records and a civil-fraud judgment.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 10, 2026

But according to the indictment, he paid himself above-market rate to “rent” properties he already owned, falsifying records to show he’d paid market rate to made-up landlords in order to house his clients.

From Los Angeles Times Jan. 23, 2026

Analysts at the firm said the ship had previously loaded crude oil from Venezuela and Iran, while falsifying its position via its onboard tracker, a process known as spoofing.

From BBC Dec. 11, 2025

The defendants engaged in a "deliberate and deceptive effort to transship controlled Nvidia GPUs to China by falsifying paperwork, creating fake contracts, and misleading US authorities," Assistant Attorney General John Eisenberg said in a statement.

From Barron's Nov. 20, 2025

The immediate advantages of falsifying the past were obvious, but the ultimate motive was mysterious.

From "1984" by George Orwell




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