as in myths
a false idea or belief
the once-common fallacy that girls just weren't any good at math
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Recent Examples of fallacies
Alas, economics is littered with fallacies.
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Steve H. Hanke, Fortune, 24 Feb. 2026
While a painter envies the novelist’s ability to inhabit consciousness, or a filmmaker envies the freedom from production costs, artists must be warned that writing carries its own myths and seductive fallacies.
—Literary Hub, 8 Dec. 2025
Such fallacies are utterly unacceptable anywhere…The Chinese military will continue to take necessary measures to resolutely safeguard national sovereignty and security, and firmly uphold regional peace and stability.
—Ryan Chan, MSNBC Newsweek, 31 Oct. 2025
Trying to pin down what a novelist actually believes is a sure way to get trapped in a labyrinth of misreadings and fallacies.
—Jeremy Gordon, The Atlantic, 12 Sep. 2025
Steve H. Hanke, Fortune, 24 Feb. 2026
While a painter envies the novelist’s ability to inhabit consciousness, or a filmmaker envies the freedom from production costs, artists must be warned that writing carries its own myths and seductive fallacies.
—Literary Hub, 8 Dec. 2025
Such fallacies are utterly unacceptable anywhere…The Chinese military will continue to take necessary measures to resolutely safeguard national sovereignty and security, and firmly uphold regional peace and stability.
—Ryan Chan, MSNBC Newsweek, 31 Oct. 2025
Trying to pin down what a novelist actually believes is a sure way to get trapped in a labyrinth of misreadings and fallacies.
—Jeremy Gordon, The Atlantic, 12 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for fallacies
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One of the projects, Ono Ghost Market, which was originally developed as a streaming series before being retooled as a feature film, will draw inspiration from Asian myths about supernatural marketplaces.—
Wesley Stenzel,
Entertainment Weekly,
7 Mar. 2026
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But the drastic measures that looksmaxxers are willing to take are lethal to one of their own foundational myths—the myth of natural beauty.—
Becca Rothfeld,
New Yorker,
7 Mar. 2026
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No more division, distraction of gender delusions.—
Peter Wehner,
The Atlantic,
6 Mar. 2026
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Multiple studies have explored the tendency of chatbots to encourage users’ delusions.—
Andrew R. Chow,
Time,
4 Mar. 2026
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No man’s land Remarkably, all of this has been happening in a regulatory vacuum and with technology that is known to make errors.—
Parmy Olson,
Mercury News,
7 Mar. 2026
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Documents released since December have included redaction errors, leaked victim identities, and ongoing complaints of mishandling by department officials.—
Alanna Durkin Richer,
Los Angeles Times,
6 Mar. 2026
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Only hours into the conflict, an errant strike on the Shajareh Tayyebeh girls’ school in southern Iran served as a gut-wrenching reminder of the cost of such illusions, and a testament to the grim truth that those who pay most dearly for the fog of war are almost always the innocent.—
Karim Sadjadpour,
The Atlantic,
4 Mar. 2026
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Miuccia Prada, herself a billionaire, has no illusions that the runway is a space for political grandstanding.—
Rachel Tashjian,
CNN Money,
3 Mar. 2026
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The zodiac signs and their associated superstitions spread from Mesopotamia to Greece and Rome and eventually became part of European tradition.—
Manon Bischoff,
Scientific American,
8 Mar. 2026
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That’s why guys have superstitions and routines.—
Haley Smilow,
Mercury News,
22 Feb. 2026
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“Fallacies.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/fallacies. Accessed 9 Mar. 2026.
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