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His supporters say he was targeted for blogging about alleged human rights abuses against the Sikh community in India and was coerced into signing a false confession to participation in the killings.
From BBC ● Sep. 18, 2026
The department has said it is looking at possible violations of federal healthcare laws, including the use of false diagnosis codes to obtain payment from insurers and federal healthcare programs.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026
Even minor changes in shadows or lighting can trigger the software, producing hundreds of false signals.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 18, 2026
His shock was how she, too, would have reacted to false allegations.
From Slate ● Sep. 17, 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
He that 'plaines of his false love, mine's falser than she.
From English and Scottish Ballads, Volume IV 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
But the theories thus developed are the falsest of false guides as to the original meaning of the old religions.
From Introduction to the Science of Sociology by Robert Ezra Park
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