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Speaking outside court, Ali said: "The harm is already done. The smears leave their stench, even when proven to be false."
From BBC ● Oct. 16, 2026
“Their intent was to disseminate false and derogatory information about Ms. Comans as widely as possible.”
From Salon ● Oct. 16, 2026
He also saw what caused the false alarm: The Spanish translation of how to distinguish expected acid reflux from possible heart attack symptoms was clumsy and confusing.
From Slate ● Oct. 16, 2026
The allegations against her are false, she said, and she won’t allow them to define her “decades of public service” and intends to “vigorously defend my name, my reputation, and my integrity.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 13, 2026
Joey Guerrero is one of the few residents at Carville who isn’t using a fake name and false identity.
From "At Last She Stood" by Erin Entrada Kelly
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 falser or more disastrous doctrine could be promulgated.
From Feminism and Sex-Extinction by Arabella Kenealy
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
Without a hope, even the falsest, she must have gone mad.
From Heart of the Blue Ridge by Waldron Baily
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