How to Use falsehood in a Sentence
falsehood
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Lara, like many of Trump’s devotees, helped to spread that falsehood.
—Eric Cortellessa, TIME, 12 July 2024
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But the last decade has made the extent—and the consequences—of online falsehoods all the more clear.
—Paris Martineau, Wired, 30 Dec. 2019
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We will not be gulled by the frauds and falsehoods of the Kremlin’s apologists.
—Lloyd J. Austin Iii, Foreign Affairs, 1 Nov. 2024
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Many journalists in Ukraine have tried to counter the falsehoods.
—The Christian Science Monitor, 15 May 2018
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But he’s been ratcheting up the rhetoric and falsehoods from the very start of his second term.
—Patrick Oppmann, CNN, 31 Jan. 2025
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But then came Frey’s fall from grace, as his tale was found to be peppered with falsehoods.
—Andrea Mandell, USA TODAY, 4 Dec. 2019
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And these are just the falsehoods Musk tweeted himself.
—Miles Klee, Rolling Stone, 9 Aug. 2024
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The sting of this piece is not in its allegations, but in its falsehoods and half-truths.
—WSJ, 29 Apr. 2019
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In July, a tweet made the rounds spreading a falsehood about voting.
—Steven Lee Myers, New York Times, 31 Oct. 2022
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And shame on the NRA and the gun lobby for trying to mislead people with falsehoods.
—Los Angeles Times, 7 Aug. 2019
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In the end, Trump did not proactively stoke the falsehood - but did not play it down either.
—Author: Ashley Parker, Josh Dawsey, Matt Viser, Anchorage Daily News, 7 Nov. 2020
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There can be lots of falsehoods that the AI assumes to be utterly true.
—Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 3 Apr. 2025
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Forget the absurd falsehood about Sasse and Afghanistan.
—Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 26 Aug. 2021
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This was to be the only verifiable falsehood of the whole day.
—Belinda Luscombe, Time, 5 Sep. 2019
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But the message, the army clarified hours later on X, turned out to be a falsehood.
—Elizabeth Dwoskin, Washington Post, 14 Oct. 2023
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The platform has itself been called a cesspool, rife with hateful rhetoric and falsehoods.
—Matteo Wong, The Atlantic, 29 Jan. 2025
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The Times' staff analyzed the State of the Union on Tuesday to try to separate truths from falsehoods.
—Los Angeles Times Staff, latimes.com, 31 Jan. 2018
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The effects of Cartwright's falsehood, and others like it, linger today.
—Jacque Smith, CNN, 25 Apr. 2021
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Supporters of Trump, backed by an online army, pushed the falsehood that the election was stolen.
—Washington Post, 21 Apr. 2022
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Trump hit back Wednesday in a Truth Social post awash with falsehoods.
—Tom Rogers, Newsweek, 21 Feb. 2025
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But Trump could also use the platform to spread falsehoods, as he's done on Truth Social.
—Julia Ingram, CBS News, 5 June 2024
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This piece will debunk that falsehood from start to finish.
—Matt Shapiro, National Review, 8 June 2021
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Yet the paper finds that, on Twitter at least, the presence of bots does not seem to boost the spread of falsehoods relative to truth.
—The Economist, 10 Mar. 2018
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The ad’s claim has been dubbed a falsehood by Washington Post fact-checkers.
—Editorial Board Star Tribune, Star Tribune, 14 Oct. 2020
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And true to form, a campaigning Trump always gives the world a boatload of falsehoods to grapple with.
—Paula Rogo, Essence.com, 12 Mar. 2018
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Still, Albert added that students deserve to know what's going on in the U.S. and around the world, and telling partial truths equates to a falsehood.
—Emily Bloch, USA TODAY, 11 June 2021
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Trump and his allies spread falsehoods about the validity of the vote count in Detroit in 2020.
—Clara Hendrickson, Detroit Free Press, 31 Oct. 2024
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All four of them go after the same thing, this truth/falsehood issue, and blur between the two, which is how the world has approached me for so many years.
—Nick Hilden, Los Angeles Times, 13 Oct. 2023
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Teachers can help students form their consciences and empower them to act against falsehood and injustice.
—Peter Nguyen, The Conversation, 30 Apr. 2025
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Within a couple of months, more than 50 participants, many of them amateurs, had proved the truth or falsehood of nearly all 22 million implications.
—Jordana Cepelewicz, Quanta Magazine, 30 Apr. 2025
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