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as in delusion
a false idea or belief the once-common fallacy that girls just weren't any good at math
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as in deception
the quality or state of being false the fallacy of the notion of spontaneous generation was demonstrated by the Dutch naturalist Leeuwenhoek
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Recent Examples of fallacy While Davies is Canada’s best player when fit, Canada Soccer has come to understand the fallacy in pinning their hopes on him, or any one player, over the past few years. —
Joshua Kloke, New York Times, 11 Mar. 2026 This, of course, was a fallacy, and months later, Hitler seized all of Czechoslovakia and quickly moved beyond. —Bobby Zirkin, Baltimore Sun, 8 Mar. 2026 Stewart is not buying the fallacy that life ends at a certain age. —Lale Arikoglu, Condé Nast Traveler, 8 Mar. 2026 The fallacy was that it was limited to the United States. —Mike Fleming Jr, Deadline, 13 Feb. 2026 See All Example Sentences for fallacy
Joshua Kloke, New York Times, 11 Mar. 2026 This, of course, was a fallacy, and months later, Hitler seized all of Czechoslovakia and quickly moved beyond. —Bobby Zirkin, Baltimore Sun, 8 Mar. 2026 Stewart is not buying the fallacy that life ends at a certain age. —Lale Arikoglu, Condé Nast Traveler, 8 Mar. 2026 The fallacy was that it was limited to the United States. —Mike Fleming Jr, Deadline, 13 Feb. 2026 See All Example Sentences for fallacy
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Psychosis is a loss of contact with reality that can be characterized by hearing voices and having delusions.— Sandee LaMotte, CNN Money, 20 Apr. 2026
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But here’s how bitcoin really become the prototype for all the crypto delusion that followed.— Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 20 Apr. 2026
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To Elliott, these seemingly minuscule mistakes that were ultimately corrected encapsulate Neon’s deception.— Winston Cho, HollywoodReporter, 21 Apr. 2026
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Test your hand-eye coördination and deception skills by maneuvering open windows on your desktop background, answering e-mails and texts and looking at Instagram, all while appearing to be engaged.— Charles Yu, New Yorker, 20 Apr. 2026
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Originality is a comforting myth.— Brian Boucher, ARTnews.com, 16 Apr. 2026
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Common myths, such as opening windows or hiding in a southwest corner, are false and can increase danger.— Brandi D. Addison, USA Today, 15 Apr. 2026
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Of course, the retort is that this would be irritating and exasperating to be continually deluged with alerts about AI deceptiveness.— Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 24 Aug. 2025
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Beyond the deceptiveness of the narrow material view, spiritual light and hope are always present to be found and felt.— Sue Brightman, Christian Science Monitor, 3 Jan. 2025
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Yet technology experts warn that outsourcing key decisions to AI exposes consumers to risks, potentially leading to communications errors and costing people money, while also potentially handing hackers the keys to their data.— Megan Cerullo, CBS News, 17 Apr. 2026
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Nurses at the hospital continue to report staffing issues and high turnover rates while saying medication errors and delays in patient care are continuing to occur.— Livi Stanford, Hartford Courant, 16 Apr. 2026
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And in the enfacement illusion, people can momentarily experience another face as their own.— Utkarsh Gupta, Scientific American, 15 Apr. 2026
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So there was the illusion of security in the Gulf.— Eleanor Mueller, semafor.com, 14 Apr. 2026
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At the very least, the definition of lying must include speaking with the aim of causing one’s audience to adopt a falsehood.— Robert B. Talisse, The Conversation, 10 Apr. 2026
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The reality, though, is that Polymarket has been criticized for dealing in the language of journalism while peddling wildly irresponsible falsehoods.— Frank Landymore, Futurism, 9 Apr. 2026
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“Fallacy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.grautoblog.com/thesaurus/fallacy. Accessed 23 Apr. 2026.
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