perjure

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Recent Examples of perjure If these allegations are true, Mr. Patel may have perjured himself before the Senate Judiciary Committee. Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 11 Feb. 2025 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 But a federal judge suggested that Cohen perjured himself either in his testimony or his guilty plea. San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 May 2024 See All Example Sentences for perjure
Recent Examples of Synonyms for perjure
Verb
  • Scott’s death lay outside the special commission’s purview because the criminal proceedings were under way at the time.
    Eren Orbey, New Yorker, 13 Oct. 2025
  • But Newsom’s growing appetite for confrontation, both nationally and within California, raises flags about where the governor’s priorities really lie.
    Douglas Schoen, Oc Register, 13 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • The fuel is currently being fabricated at GNF’s state-of-the-art facility in Wilmington, North Carolina.
    Aman Tripathi, Interesting Engineering, 8 Oct. 2025
  • The sequence that ends in her abduction and killing is entirely fabricated by the show.
    JR Radcliffe, jsonline.com, 6 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Then later, after Flores had died, the litigation accuses Freedman of publicly defending himself by betraying attorney-client confidences and misrepresenting the merits of Flores’ own case in the media.
    Gary Baum, HollywoodReporter, 8 Oct. 2025
  • This report repeatedly misrepresents our efforts to empower parents and protect teens, misstating how our safety tools work and how millions of parents and teens are using them today.
    Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 4 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • In the decades that followed, Freeman, who died in 2025, assembled a vast array of literary fakes, collecting books whose content is deceiving in nature.
    Big Think, Big Think, 13 Oct. 2025
  • Experts have warned that such videos may go viral and deceive voters, potentially increasing voter distrust in the media and political system more generally.
    James Bickerton, MSNBC Newsweek, 13 Oct. 2025

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“Perjure.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/perjure. Accessed 15 Oct. 2025.

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