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myth
noun as in fictitious story, often ancient
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Herzog’s films have often explored the intersection of myth and truth.
From Los Angeles Times
To solve the wildfire crisis, we have to let the myth of ‘the wild’ die.
From Los Angeles Times
For Stephanie Hilborne, chief executive of Women in Sport, efforts needed to be made to bust a myth "that teenage girls drop out of sport simply because their priorities change".
From BBC
"It's the Balinese Hindu culture that has created this myth of the place."
From BBC
"That's a myth, mainly because we didn't have tools to diagnose it."
From BBC
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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