falsities

plural of falsity
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as in betrayals
the act or fact of violating the trust or confidence of another despite being offered a fortune to spill the president's secrets, the trusted aide declared that he'd sooner die than be guilty of such falsity

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Noun
  • Often, mental health experts see a change in delusions when new technologies are developed.
    Alyssa Goldberg, USA Today, 4 Sep. 2025
  • For an in-depth look at AI psychosis and especially the co-creation of delusions via human-AI collaboration, see my recent analysis at the link here.
    Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 3 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Our family has been ruined by Denise's lies of promising to end a year-long affair.
    Liza Esquibias, PEOPLE, 4 Sep. 2025
  • It is entirely based on Hamas’s campaign of lies and the laundering of those lies by others.
    Jesus Mesa, MSNBC Newsweek, 1 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • So this is a temporary hiccup—Indians will be unhappy, anti-Americanism will once again grow within the country’s strategic elite, and stories of American betrayals will persist for years.
    Happymon Jacob, Time, 3 Sep. 2025
  • An escape plan is hatched, leading to a breaking of factions, betrayals, and a shocking confrontation.
    Billie Melissa, MSNBC Newsweek, 3 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • While most technology leaders have done their fair share to dispel these myths in favor of AI’s transformative potential, concerns of misinformation, security vulnerabilities and unpredictability still hum beneath the unstoppable swell of AI innovation.
    Monish Darda, Forbes.com, 8 Sep. 2025
  • Without clear evidence, myths persist — and athletes hesitate.
    Starre Vartan, CNN Money, 5 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Their empires cracked, their shadows receded, and their names faded into cautionary tales.
    John Hope Bryant, Time, 6 Sep. 2025
  • The mysterious spirit animal messengers that Ji-noo sends, a tiger and a magpie who represent the nobles and commoners of many Korean folk tales, needed to be otherworldly without being fully demonic.
    Sarah Shachat, IndieWire, 5 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Not even Trump can have any illusions now.
    Nick Paton Walsh, CNN Money, 8 Sep. 2025
  • Eclipses bring truth to the surface, so don’t cling to illusions.
    Dossé-Via Trenou, Refinery29, 31 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • Other big stories ➤ The median rent on a one-bedroom Phoenix-area apartment is falling after the region led the nation in price increases in 2021.
    Lorenzino Estrada, AZCentral.com, 3 Sep. 2025
  • Randy Tucker Many of you have read the name PLK Communities in my stories about the team of developers behind the controversial Hyde Park Square redevelopment plan.
    Randy Tucker, Cincinnati Enquirer, 3 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Other discipline errors snowballed after that.
    Jesse Newell, New York Times, 6 Sep. 2025
  • Alcaraz finished with 30 unforced errors, the same total as his opponent.
    Howard Fendrich, Chicago Tribune, 6 Sep. 2025
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“Falsities.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/falsities. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.

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