Thesaurus / falsify
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Vox’s Brian Resnick has written extensively on “deep canvassing,” a tactic that was mired in controversy when Science retracted the initial 2014 study after the researcher was found to have falsified his data.
POLL: COLLEGE STUDENTS ARE READY TO CALL OUT PEOPLE WHO DON’T VOTEJERUSALEM DEMSASOCTOBER 16, 2020VOXThe frustration for theoretical ecologists is that, with thousands of disparate ecosystems around the globe, ecological theories can be hard to universally falsify.
A PHYSICIST’S APPROACH TO BIOLOGY BRINGS ECOLOGICAL INSIGHTSGABRIEL POPKINOCTOBER 13, 2020QUANTA MAGAZINEDuring that time, he reported only one of his hires to the board of overseers for falsifying invoices, commission records show.
MAINE HIRES LAWYERS WITH CRIMINAL RECORDS TO DEFEND ITS POOREST RESIDENTSBY SAMANTHA HOGAN, THE MAINE MONITOR, WITH DATA ANALYSIS BY AGNEL PHILIPOCTOBER 6, 2020PROPUBLICABecause Pirahã, according to Dan, would falsify that hypothesis.
TALKING IS THROWING FICTIONAL WORLDS AT ONE ANOTHER - ISSUE 89: THE DARK SIDEKEVIN BERGERSEPTEMBER 9, 2020NAUTILUSWe will permanently ban any pollster found to be falsifying data.
POLLS POLICY AND FAQSDHRUMIL MEHTA (DHRUMIL.MEHTA@FIVETHIRTYEIGHT.COM)JULY 17, 2020FIVETHIRTYEIGHTIf there were a law to punish those who adulterate or falsify "truth," our magistrates would be kept extremely busy.
ANCIENT FAITHS AND MODERNTHOMAS INMANI may equally charge controversial writers with fraud, when they falsify the words or arguments of an opponent.
ANCIENT FAITHS AND MODERNTHOMAS INMANBut we must not falsify observation to avoid theoretical difficulties.
THE ANALYSIS OF MINDBERTRAND RUSSELLIt may be added, that even the height of the boot-heels of young collegians of twenty-five would tend to falsify the average.
CHAMBERS'S EDINBURGH JOURNAL, NO. 442VARIOUSIt will be curious if the result, as not unfrequently happens, should be such as to falsify both conclusions.
CHAMBERS'S EDINBURGH JOURNAL, NO. 443VARIOUSWORDS RELATED TO FALSIFY
- bamboozle
- be dishonest
- beat
- beat out of
- beguile
- betray
- bilk
- buffalo
- burn
- cheat
- circumvent
- clip
- con
- cozen
- cross up
- defraud
- delude
- disappoint
- double-cross
- dupe
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- entrap
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- fleece
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- gull
- hoax
- hoodwink
- hook
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- outwit
- play joke on
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- fleeces
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- hoaxes
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- hooks
- humbugs
- imposes upon
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- plays joke on
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- skins
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- tricks
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- affect
- age
- alter
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- assume
- beard
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- change
- cloak
- color
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- cover
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- deceive
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- front
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- hide
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- double-talk
- doublespeak
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- four-flush
- hide
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- pass
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- pussyfoot
- put on a false front
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- put on an act
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- put up a smokescreen
- sham
- shroud
- shuck and jive
- signify
- simulate
- stonewall
- whitewash
- aggrandize
- amplify
- blow-up
- build up
- color
- distend
- dramatize
- elaborate
- embellish
- enhance
- enlarge
- expand
- falsify
- fudge
- heighten
- hyperbolize
- lie
- magnify
- make federal case
- make mountain out of molehill
- overdo
- overelaborate
- overembellish
- overemphasize
- overestimate
- overstate
- pad
- play up
- puff
- romanticize
- spread on thick
- stretch
- stretch the truth
- yeast
- beat around the bush
- beg the question
- blow hot and cold
- cavil
- cloud the issue
- cop a plea
- cop out
- cover up
- dodge
- double-talk
- elude
- escape
- eschew
- evade
- falsify
- fence
- fib
- flip-flop
- fudge
- give the runaround
- hedge
- hem and haw
- jive
- lie
- mince words
- palter
- parry
- pass the buck
- prevaricate
- pussyfoot
- quibble
- run around
- shuck
- shuffle
- sidestep
- sit on the fence
- stonewall
- tell white lie
- tergiversate
- tergiverse
- waffle
- weasel
- amplify
- blow out of proportion
- boast
- boost
- brag
- build up
- caricature
- color
- cook up
- corrupt
- distort
- embroider
- emphasize
- enlarge
- exalt
- expand
- fabricate
- falsify
- fudge
- go to extremes
- heighten
- hike
- hyperbolize
- inflate
- intensify
- lay it on thick
- lie
- loud talk
- magnify
- make too much of
- misquote
- misreport
- misrepresent
- overdo
- overdraw
- overemphasize
- overestimate
- pad
- pretty up
- puff
- put on
- pyramid
- romance
- romanticize
- scam
- stretch
- up
- amplifying
- blowing out of proportion
- boasting
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- bragging
- building up
- caricaturing
- coloring
- cooking up
- corrupting
- distorting
- embroidering
- emphasizing
- enlarging
- exalting
- expanding
- fabricating
- falsifying
- fudging
- going to extremes
- heightening
- hiking
- hyperbolizing
- inflating
- intensifying
- loud talk
- lying
- lying it on thick
- magnifying
- making too much of
- misquoting
- misreporting
- misrepresenting
- overdoing
- overdrawing
- overemphasizing
- overestimating
- padding
- pretty up
- puffing
- putting on
- pyramiding
- romancing
- romanticizing
- scamming
- stretching
- upping
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