hoax
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Some are questioning whether the news is a hoax or a forfeit for Arsenal fan KSI after the north London football club missed out on the Champions League title to Paris Saint-Germain on Saturday.
From BBC • Jun. 1, 2026
In 1996, physicist Alan Sokal published a hoax article full of trendy academic nonsense in the journal Social Text.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 27, 2026
If affordability is a hoax, a whole lot of people seem to have bought into it.
From Salon • May 7, 2026
The documents describe an elaborate hoax in which the defendants allegedly created fake companies and fraudulent email accounts and driver’s licenses to help fool lenders into loaning them huge sums of money.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 16, 2026
“CBS program of last evening was most abominable hoax ever perpetrated on the American public.”
From "Spooked!" by Gail Jarrow
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