false appearance
Example Sentences
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One user’s Google Gemini chatbot fabricated calendar and email details, creating the false appearance of a data breach.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 14, 2026
Background subtraction is sometimes done in high-pressure superconductivity studies, but the practice is controversial because it can give the false appearance of zero resistance.
From Science Magazine ● Sep. 27, 2023
He held investor meetings at homes in the Hollywood Hills and traveled with armed security guards to “create the false appearance of wealth and success,” prosecutors said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 2, 2022
Those seeking change contend that, in addition to forcing nonbinary performers into boxes, gendered categories give the false appearance that prime roles for women are far more prevalent than they actually are.
From New York Times ● Aug. 5, 2021
But you are devils that have come to me under the false appearance of angels.
From First Book of Adam and Eve by Platt, Rutherford Hayes
