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Should I spend the money and PTO to feel like I’m keeping this relationship afloat, or does it create a false sense of excitement?

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 19, 2026

It’s an idea that simply to get through the day we are playing a role of sorts, tuning our conversations to please others, or presenting exaggerated, false or tidied-up versions of ourselves on social media.

From Los Angeles Times ● 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

She is still seeking to prove that allegation false in an ongoing court case.

From Barron's ● Sep. 16, 2026

The other woman was a young, blonde, blue-eyed Dutch Jew with flawless false identity papers supplied by the Dutch national underground itself.

From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom

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

There is no falser proverb than that devil’s beatitude, “Blessed is he who expecteth nothing, for he shall never be disappointed.”

From Daily Thoughts selected from the writings of Charles Kingsley by his wife by Fanny E. Kingsley

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

Now, why did Kitty, who was the falsest thing on earth, who was in tune with every kind of falsity, by merely suffering somehow remind us of reality?

From The Return of the Soldier by Rebecca West