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as in delusion
a false idea or belief
the once-common fallacy that girls just weren't any good at math
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as in deception
the quality or state of being false
the fallacy of the notion of spontaneous generation was demonstrated by the Dutch naturalist Leeuwenhoek
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Recent Examples of fallacy
While Davies is Canada’s best player when fit, Canada Soccer has come to understand the fallacy in pinning their hopes on him, or any one player, over the past few years.
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Joshua Kloke, New York Times, 11 Mar. 2026
This, of course, was a fallacy, and months later, Hitler seized all of Czechoslovakia and quickly moved beyond.
—Bobby Zirkin, Baltimore Sun, 8 Mar. 2026
Stewart is not buying the fallacy that life ends at a certain age.
—Lale Arikoglu, Condé Nast Traveler, 8 Mar. 2026
The fallacy was that it was limited to the United States.
—Mike Fleming Jr, Deadline, 13 Feb. 2026
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Joshua Kloke, New York Times, 11 Mar. 2026
This, of course, was a fallacy, and months later, Hitler seized all of Czechoslovakia and quickly moved beyond.
—Bobby Zirkin, Baltimore Sun, 8 Mar. 2026
Stewart is not buying the fallacy that life ends at a certain age.
—Lale Arikoglu, Condé Nast Traveler, 8 Mar. 2026
The fallacy was that it was limited to the United States.
—Mike Fleming Jr, Deadline, 13 Feb. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for fallacy
Noun
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Psychosis is a loss of contact with reality that can be characterized by hearing voices and having delusions.—
Sandee LaMotte,
CNN Money,
20 Apr. 2026
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But here’s how bitcoin really become the prototype for all the crypto delusion that followed.—
Owen Gleiberman,
Variety,
20 Apr. 2026
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To Elliott, these seemingly minuscule mistakes that were ultimately corrected encapsulate Neon’s deception.—
Winston Cho,
HollywoodReporter,
21 Apr. 2026
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Test your hand-eye coördination and deception skills by maneuvering open windows on your desktop background, answering e-mails and texts and looking at Instagram, all while appearing to be engaged.—
Charles Yu,
New Yorker,
20 Apr. 2026
Noun
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In the retelling, personal narrative becomes public history, communal memory, and even cultural myth.—
Horace D. Ballard,
Artforum,
22 Apr. 2026
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Child murder cases have long held the public’s fascination, from the Greek myth of Medea killing her children to get back at Jason, to the more recent cases of Andrea Yates, Jennifer Hart and Lori Vallow.—
Chelsea Bailey,
CNN Money,
22 Apr. 2026
Noun
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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
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Beyond the deceptiveness of the narrow material view, spiritual light and hope are always present to be found and felt.—
Sue Brightman,
Christian Science Monitor,
3 Jan. 2025
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Following a throwing error that allowed Trevor Story to reach with two outs, Marcelo Mayer drove an RBI double the opposite way off the Green Monster to give the Red Sox their first lead of the series.—
Mac Cerullo,
Boston Herald,
24 Apr. 2026
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The surplus turned out to be a mirage, based on a $165 billion error in revenue estimates over four years.—
Dan Walters,
Mercury News,
24 Apr. 2026
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But as their profile rises, so do the risks, and the illusion proves increasingly difficult to maintain.—
Anthony D'Alessandro,
Deadline,
22 Apr. 2026
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Jaden McDaniels isn’t worried about the illusion of respect.—
Bennett Durando,
Denver Post,
21 Apr. 2026
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Jones has vowed to keep broadcasting through a new company he’s founded and remains an inflammatory and notable figure in the far-right media system after decades of spouting falsehoods and bigotry.—
Joseph Konig,
PEOPLE,
24 Apr. 2026
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There are questions being raised, and the best antidote for falsehood is the truth in accuracy.—
Stepheny Price , Sarah Rumpf-Whitten , Michael Ruiz,
FOXNews.com,
17 Apr. 2026
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“Fallacy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/fallacy. Accessed 27 Apr. 2026.
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