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Recent Examples of untruth This does not necessarily mean untruths or factual errors. Nisha Talagala, Forbes.com, 30 June 2025 At the celebration that follows their hair-raising return to Holy Island, Spike is disturbed by his father’s exultant untruths, regaling the crowd with false accounts of his son’s heroics when the squeamish boy had been too petrified to be of use during the attack. David Rooney, HollywoodReporter, 18 June 2025 Here is the irony, though: The fiction writer’s craft, the instrument of his trade, revolves around the conjuring of untruths. Abubakar Adam Ibrahim, The Dial, 4 Mar. 2025 The basic essentials of your life – electricity, food and water – must be in place to afford the privilege of propagating or believing untruths. Nick Paton Walsh, CNN, 28 Feb. 2025 See All Example Sentences for untruth
Recent Examples of Synonyms for untruth
Noun
  • Don’t let delusions (especially those planted by gaslighters) guide your thoughts and heart.
    Lisa Stardust, Refinery29, 14 Oct. 2025
  • Chatbots are known to validate users’ obsessions and delusions, and most of the litigation around this phenomenon has so far pertained to self-harm, as in the suits Jain has brought against OpenAI and Character Technologies.
    Miles Klee, Rolling Stone, 11 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • That’s where Israel’s future lies.
    Efrat Lachter, FOXNews.com, 14 Oct. 2025
  • Like many people, she was taken in by his lies.
    Meredith Kile, PEOPLE, 14 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Everything can be used as a tool for good and to build, or for bad and destruction and deception.
    Marc Malkin, Variety, 14 Oct. 2025
  • The question now is whether our ability to detect deception can evolve as fast as the tools that create it.
    Big Think, Big Think, 13 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Arizona is home to numerous local legends, myths, and supernatural tales.
    Tiffany Acosta, AZCentral.com, 17 Oct. 2025
  • The series explores Bollywood myths and realities in a very insider way.
    Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 16 Oct. 2025
Noun
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    , FOXNews.com, 13 Oct. 2025
  • Hollywood streamers and studios seemingly can't resist such tales, which explains the boom of true crime documentaries and dramatizations over the past decade.
    Kelly Lawler, USA Today, 13 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • 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
Noun
  • Inspired by mirrors, which reflect reality while simultaneously generating illusion, the collection explored the tension between the two.
    Denni Hu, Footwear News, 17 Oct. 2025
  • Her research examines people’s beliefs about what others think of them, including illusions and biases that can interfere with social connection, and interventions to improve people’s social lives.
    Maya Rossignac-Milon Erica Boothby, CNBC, 17 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Partners have no control over or input into the reporting or editing process and do not review stories before publication.
    Data Skrive, New York Times, 14 Oct. 2025
  • This is a developing story and will be updated.
    John Liu, CNN Money, 13 Oct. 2025

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“Untruth.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/untruth. Accessed 20 Oct. 2025.

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