perjure

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Recent Examples of perjure But a federal judge suggested that Cohen perjured himself either in his testimony or his guilty plea. San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 May 2024 Garcia Luna’s lawyer, Cesar de Castro, filed a motion to vacate the conviction in December, alleging several witnesses at the trial perjured themselves. John Annese, New York Daily News, 7 Aug. 2024 In Twain's novella, no fewer than four local men accept bribes from Brace Dunlap to perjure themselves in order to hang saintly Uncle Silas. arkansasonline.com, 3 Aug. 2024 Defense lawyers in Trump's hush money case have argued that Cohen perjured himself again during his testimony in the civil fraud trial, further diminishing his credibility. Peter Charalambous, ABC News, 13 May 2024 See All Example Sentences for perjure
Recent Examples of Synonyms for perjure
Verb
  • The waves measured reflected off subsurface layers, revealing a sharp boundary at the depth where the magma cap lies.
    Julia Jacobo, ABC News, 23 Apr. 2025
  • His age is likely to be the main limiting factor in where his future lies.
    Matt Woosnam, New York Times, 23 Apr. 2025
Verb
  • It was further fabricated that Jenkins unearthed some concept art sketches by this unknown illustrator and resurrected the character for the Marvel Knights line.
    Jeff Spry, Space.com, 23 Apr. 2025
  • But those images are not real — our mind has fabricated them to serve our own needs.
    Goth Shakira, Los Angeles Times, 18 Apr. 2025
Verb
  • What To Know The complaint centers on claims that Tesla and CEO Musk repeatedly misrepresented these systems as fully autonomous or nearly so, even though the technology remains incomplete.
    Ross Rosenfeld, MSNBC Newsweek, 22 Apr. 2025
  • The scholars were joined last year by some of Bonhoeffer’s living relatives, who released a statement accusing Metaxas, a vocal supporter of President Donald Trump, of misrepresenting Bonhoeffer as a fundamentalist evangelical.
    John Blake, CNN Money, 13 Apr. 2025
Verb
  • Jurors found Peters guilty in August for using someone else’s security badge to give an expert affiliated with My Pillow chief executive Mike Lindell access to the Mesa County election system and deceiving other officials about that person’s identity.
    Colleen Slevin, Twin Cities, 22 Apr. 2025
  • Stribling tried to deceive officers by saying Bailei was shot in a robbery, The Detroit News reported.
    Mike Stunson, Kansas City Star, 17 Apr. 2025

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“Perjure.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/perjure. Accessed 5 May. 2025.

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