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spurious

[spyoor-ee-uhs] / ˈspjʊər i əs /


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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

Wasserman characterized the Daily Mail report as spurious.

From The Wall Street Journal Feb. 21, 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

Brown considered the allegation spurious, and said it had no foundation in reality.

From BBC Jul. 21, 2025

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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