spurious
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That timing control helps researchers focus on periods when genuine scintillation light is most likely to be present while filtering out random background signals and other spurious counts.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 17, 2026
He said the one particular plot point "is revived and resolved in a very spurious and unsatisfying way", adding that "IP exhaustion has set in" on the franchise.
From BBC ● Jun. 17, 2026
Its title suggests the regime is moving toward national reconciliation by extinguishing the spurious records it created of crimes it claims its opponents committed.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 1, 2026
Many politicians and government employees learned from The Times that they had been targeted with spurious filings.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 6, 2026
Thus they assured themselves that they had not been taken in by a spurious result.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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