false impression

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According to the researchers, using mental verbs to describe AI can create a false impression.

From Science Daily • Apr. 19, 2026

But social media presents a new problem: coordinated influence that hides behind armies of avatars, creating a false impression of grassroots support.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 5, 2026

Some critics claim the paucity of opposition provided in Group K may have given a false impression of England's quality.

From Barron's • Nov. 16, 2025

His mission now was to take the reins from Netanyahu, or rather to foster the false impression he’d held them all along.

From Salon • Jun. 22, 2025

The parade of guilty people through America’s courtrooms gives the false impression to the public—as well as to judges—that when the police have a “hunch,” it makes sense to let them act on it.

From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander