lie

I think that it would be a lie.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 1, 2026

They can’t safely lie on Securities and Exchange Commission forms, and yet here those forms were.

From Slate ● Sep. 1, 2026

In an interview last year, Turrell said: "I did lie about my age. I pushed it up a bit, gave all the right answers, and I was in. I was happy."

From BBC ● Aug. 29, 2026

Kids often lie about their age when they set up social-media accounts.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 27, 2026

I never did lie to my mama, but right then I sure wanted to tell her one, but I didn’t.

From "Summer of the Monkeys" by Wilson Rawls

He’s now buried right next to a baby girl who died at 4 months and had, until his burial, lain in the cemetery alone without anyone by her side.

From Slate ● Jul. 19, 2026

They had lain undiscovered beneath sand dunes but were exposed when they were scoured away by strong winds and high tides.

From BBC ● Feb. 20, 2026

"It's fascinating for me to see how shipwrecks that have lain there and been dived for for years and years still have new things to reveal every time people go and dive them," he said.

From BBC ● Dec. 10, 2025

Someone close to us had died along the shoulder of a highway and had lain unnamed for more than 40 years.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 5, 2025

Where I am lain, there is no light to read by, so I must add dullness of mind and fatigue of spirits to discomfort of body.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson

In Newport Beach, strong waves have carved away so many layers of sand that they exposed long-forgotten remnants of the city’s infrastructure that lay buried under sand and water for many decades.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 2, 2026

Seth Goldstein at Morningstar doesn’t expect Tesla to lay out much that wasn’t already known from a high level, adding that the event would be more about offering a signal of progress.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 2, 2026

In return, the State Department has tried to get foreign governments to lay off him, even giving Betancourt a U.S. visa to meet with Trump officials.

From Slate ● Aug. 31, 2026

The Ducati Multistrada V4 Rally lay in the gravel beside 17 Mile Drive on California’s Monterey Peninsula, where I had dropped it moments before.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 29, 2026

Ma gets to lay out the rooms, windows, fireplaces, and kitchen.

From "Will’s Race for Home" by Jewell Parker Rhodes

And most importantly, she said, it’s a community of people who are “tired of being lied to.”

From Salon ● Aug. 26, 2026

Federal authorities will seek to deport Manuel Ernesto Hernandez-Umana, claiming he lied to cross the southern border in 2017.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026

For decades, Kennedy says, the government has lied to Americans about saturated fat.

From Salon ● Aug. 5, 2026

Prosecutor Denise Osei said Morecroft repeatedly lied about making "out of pocket" payments for which he had requested "reimbursements" from treasurer Joshua Holvey.

From BBC ● Jul. 28, 2026

She asked if he was okay with it, with one eyebrow raised, and I lied and told her he was, and changed the subject.

From "Red Flags and Butterflies" by Sheryl Azzam

The ubiquity of AI-assisted answering—not to mention the risk of hiring candidates who might be lying about where they live, or even working for North Korea—has companies upping their screening tactics.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 30, 2026

She told a local coordinator she believed the 37th image -- showing the pale, swollen face of a man lying on a pebbled riverbed -- was her childhood best friend.

From Barron's ● Aug. 30, 2026

A World War Two veteran who fought in the Normandy campaign after lying about his age has died aged 101, a charity has said.

From BBC ● Aug. 29, 2026

My co-worker told me that he had a feeling she was lying.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 29, 2026

So many people were lying on the ground, too!

From "Adventures of Don Quixote" by Argentina Palacios