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But comments that shift blame to patients and physicians risk perpetuating stigmas, fostering the spread of misinformation, and eroding trust in modern medicine, say medical groups, doctors, and patient advocacy groups.—
Stephanie Armour,
CNN Money,
5 Aug. 2025 -
There's some blatant misinformation, like claims that urbanization could be distorting the warming, which has already been tested extensively.—
ArsTechnica,
ArsTechnica,
5 Aug. 2025
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The official story told by official sources, the story we’ve been trained to trust, is often a distortion, or a downright fabrication.—
Jesse Hyde,
Rolling Stone,
7 Aug. 2025
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Don’t get caught in your own reality distortion field.—
Jodie Cook,
Forbes.com,
7 Aug. 2025
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The views from Nobu’s signature suites are described as cinematic and that’s no exaggeration.—
Joanne Shurvell,
Forbes.com,
29 July 2025
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The discourse has also drawn retaliatory backlash from others online who say the criticisms of the ad campaign are an exaggeration.—
Angela Yang,
NBC news,
28 July 2025
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The source of this tale is a man named Barry (Alpha Oumar Sow), who coaches refugees like Souleymane to lie in their interviews for sympathetic and dramatic effect, and even supplies them with false documents that might corroborate those lies.—
Justin Chang,
New Yorker,
6 Aug. 2025
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And, sitting here a quarter of the way through the 21st century, that image is a lie.—
Will Sabel Courtney,
Robb Report,
5 Aug. 2025
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At the event in Wheeling, Pritzker also took on Trump’s Health and Human Services secretary, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who has been often accused of peddling falsehoods about immunizations.—
Jeremy Gorner,
Chicago Tribune,
12 Aug. 2025
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Unfortunately, animal rights extremists — who think having a horse give a carriage ride in a park is akin to slavery — repeatedly spew falsehoods.—
Christina Hansen,
New York Daily News,
9 Aug. 2025
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This week, Stuart Heritage reports from the U.K. on why The Salt Path, the inspirational best-selling memoir by Raynor Winn, now seems to be a hive of untruths.—
Air Mail,
Air Mail,
19 July 2025
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Social niceties and institutional language are his ways to tell untruths, even to himself, while keeping both the status quo and his organizational status intact.—
Matthew Clark Davison,
Literary Hub,
3 July 2025
Noun
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The official story told by official sources, the story we’ve been trained to trust, is often a distortion, or a downright fabrication.—
Jesse Hyde,
Rolling Stone,
7 Aug. 2025
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Sheer voile and organza fabrications give an airy feel and transparent look to a wide range of silhouettes, CottonWorks stated.—
Angela Velasquez,
Sourcing Journal,
6 Aug. 2025
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Hugo would likely have been repelled and fascinated by Trump’s demagoguery, his rambling mendacity, his grammatically illogical but easy-to-follow oratory.—
Graham Robb,
The Atlantic,
9 June 2025
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By promoting dissimulation and sanctifying mendacity, Trump’s tsarist regime works to silence knowledge.—
Sun Sentinel Editorial Board,
Sun Sentinel,
8 Apr. 2025
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“Misrepresentation.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/misrepresentation. Accessed 19 Aug. 2025.
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