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Recent Examples of canard The front fascia has larger canards and louvres, the rear has been elongated, and there’s a new double-blade active rear wing, changes that combine to improve aerodynamic efficiency and produce more downforce. Bryan Hood, Robb Report, 26 June 2025 The canard that gold caused the Great Depression is a joke. Brian Domitrovic, Forbes.com, 26 May 2025 As executive chef, Lu reinvigorated French cuisine to his own tastes, including classics like beef bourguignon, poule au pot and canard, or duck. Miguel Otárola, Denver Post, 22 May 2025 Acknowledging all of that, instead of latching on to a canard about Gorbachev, would have compelled Russian society to come to grips more fully with the internal factors that caused the Soviet system’s implosion. Stephen Kotkin, Foreign Affairs, 21 May 2019 See All Example Sentences for canard
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Noun
  • The tale is pilfered from the Aeneid, but Virgil would blench to see the curtain rise on Jupiter, dandling Ganymede, a beautiful boy, upon his knee.
    Anthony Lane, New Yorker, 8 Sep. 2025
  • Maggie O’Farrell’s 2020 novel Hamnet imagined the relationship between the Bard and his spouse as an intimate tale of lust, compromise, joy, resentment, support, and sorrow.
    David Fear, Rolling Stone, 8 Sep. 2025
Noun
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    Jeffrey Kluger, Time, 9 Sep. 2025
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Noun
  • Davis remembers hearing the whispers of concern.
    Suzette Hackney, USA Today, 5 Sep. 2025
  • Well, the test screening whisper network has said glowing things about it so far.
    Brian Davids, HollywoodReporter, 5 Sep. 2025

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“Canard.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/canard. Accessed 10 Sep. 2025.

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