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Recent Examples of apocryphal
More pointedly, Norwegian filmmaker Emilie Blichfeldt adds the grotesquerie of archaic beauty practices — both real and apocryphal — to create a feminist body-horror parable akin to last year’s The Substance.
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Louis Peitzman, Vulture, 10 Dec. 2025
As the — perhaps apocryphal — origin story goes, Pihl came up with the idea while gazing out of the window from her workshop bench.
—Oscar Holland, CNN Money, 28 Nov. 2025
The book is apocryphal, a non-canonical text that deals with Jesus’ adolescence, something not found in the Bible.
—Barry Levitt, Time, 14 Nov. 2025
Magnolia is trying just that with The Carpenter’s Son, writer and director Lotfy Nathan’s life of teenage Jesus story based on The Infancy Gospel of Thomas, a obscure apocryphal gospel.
—Jill Goldsmith, Deadline, 14 Nov. 2025
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Louis Peitzman, Vulture, 10 Dec. 2025
As the — perhaps apocryphal — origin story goes, Pihl came up with the idea while gazing out of the window from her workshop bench.
—Oscar Holland, CNN Money, 28 Nov. 2025
The book is apocryphal, a non-canonical text that deals with Jesus’ adolescence, something not found in the Bible.
—Barry Levitt, Time, 14 Nov. 2025
Magnolia is trying just that with The Carpenter’s Son, writer and director Lotfy Nathan’s life of teenage Jesus story based on The Infancy Gospel of Thomas, a obscure apocryphal gospel.
—Jill Goldsmith, Deadline, 14 Nov. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for apocryphal
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Like other collectible alternative assets, such as fine art, rare watches and classic cars, cask investing is a high-risk, speculative, long-term bet on a largely unregulated, illiquid asset.—
Hugh Leask,
CNBC,
9 May 2026
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Plans by Becknell are to build the speculative structure, to be called Northwind North Business Park, and utilize it for light industrial businesses to rent.—
Deborah Laverty,
Chicago Tribune,
8 May 2026
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Moore said that no matter how famous a host or a guest is, or how elaborate and slick a production is, an unauthentic product will not resonate with audiences.—
Yahya Salem,
CNN Money,
9 Nov. 2025
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Inaccurate debunks Amid the recycled imagery, authentic pictures of National Guard members sleeping on the floor of a federal building in Los Angeles this week were falsely described as old or unauthentic.—
Emma Li,
CBS News,
11 June 2025
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The prosecutor also asked W to opine as to whether certain hypothetical facts, which closely resembled the facts in the cases involving P and C, were consistent with grooming behavior.—
Staff Report,
Hartford Courant,
9 May 2026
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The question was, in essence, hypothetical.—
Maddie Lee,
Los Angeles Times,
8 May 2026
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Republicans and Democrats were starkly divided over the state’s sanctuary laws, with GOP candidates arguing the policy endangers public safety while Democrats defended protections for undocumented immigrants.—
Seema Mehta,
Los Angeles Times,
7 May 2026
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Texas Tribune also reported in 2024 that the University of Texas had laid off 50 employees in an effort to comply with the law, on top of shuttering its multicultural centers and ending a scholarship for undocumented students.—
Mateo Rosiles,
USA Today,
7 May 2026
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Canton High School athletic director Danny Erickson announced in a blog post Thursday that legendary boys hockey coach Brian Shuman has decided to retire.—
Brendan Connelly,
Boston Herald,
8 May 2026
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London celebrated David Attenborough’s centenary on Friday, with the highlight being a special BBC broadcast evening event at the Royal Albert Hall in the British capital dedicated to the work of the legendary English broadcaster, natural historian and conservationist.—
Georg Szalai,
HollywoodReporter,
8 May 2026
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These proposals rely heavily on theoretical risk models, selective interpretation of data and precautionary assumptions rather than demonstrated real-world patterns of harm sufficient to justify criminalization.—
Teri Sforza,
Oc Register,
8 May 2026
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This entry introduces the concept of media dependency through one of the most influential theories, the media dependency system model, and its relation to other theoretical frameworks such as uses and gratifications theory and the power dependency model.—
Encyclopedia Britannica,
Encyclopedia Britannica,
8 May 2026
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Through a fanciful and deeply personal approach, this film transforms the reckoning of immigrant life—working far from family and home—into something profoundly relatable, accessible, and unexpectedly uplifting.—
Ryan Lattanzio,
IndieWire,
6 May 2026
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Tsiolkovsky’s vision was fanciful, more romance than science, but the theme gained concreteness in other works of fiction.—
Big Think,
Big Think,
22 Apr. 2026
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Their stories live on in Sardinian lore with an almost mythical quality, the brigands admired for their intractability.—
IEEE Spectrum,
IEEE Spectrum,
7 May 2026
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Komodo dragons were nearly mythical creatures until the first detailed field study was conducted by Walter Auffenberg in the late 1960s.—
Craig Stanford,
Big Think,
7 May 2026
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“Apocryphal.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/apocryphal. Accessed 12 May. 2026.
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