spurious
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However, content creators the BBC has spoken to say Meta is poor at identifying obviously spurious cases, and say its appeals process is slow to respond unless you pay a monthly fee.
From BBC ● Sep. 8, 2026
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
A spokesperson for Onset said the creditor committee’s claims are “unsupported and baseless and strategically made as part of a spurious scorched-earth litigation tactic to serve their own financial interests in this bankruptcy.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 6, 2026
Yet when language scholars try to debunk the spurious rules, the dichotomizing mindset imagines that they are trying to abolish all standards of good writing.
From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker
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