as in libels
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the crime of telling a lie in a court of law after promising to tell the truth
He was found guilty of perjury.
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Noun
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The flip side is that 1 in 10 AI answers is wrong, and for Google, that means hundreds of thousands of lies going out every minute of the day.—
ArsTechnica,
ArsTechnica,
7 Apr. 2026 -
For years, Ye used his considerable celebrity to promote hate and violence against Jews, spreading antisemitic lies and stereotypes to his 33 million followers — more than twice the number of Jewish people alive today.—
Chris Willman,
Variety,
7 Apr. 2026
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This could allow for greater design flexibility, as lower curing deformation results in fewer distortions during production.—
Chris Young,
Interesting Engineering,
3 Apr. 2026
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At Ulrik, these biomorphic forms echoed the surreal distortions that Bettina documented in Manhattan’s corporate architecture.—
Katherine Rochester,
Artforum,
1 Apr. 2026
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Together, these individuals bedevil lawmakers with their flag-waving and their exaggerations about the alien problem.—
Christine Smallwood,
Harpers Magazine,
24 Mar. 2026
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Free of the trappings and exaggerations of the 1980s, fashion had turned to celebrating clothes in their simplest, purest form, with invisible seams and clean lines, devoid of embellishments and in a strictly neutral, pattern-free palette.—
Valentina Bottoni,
Vanity Fair,
13 Mar. 2026
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As models have grown more complex, some hallucinate with more persuasive fabrications.—
Ronan Farrow,
New Yorker,
6 Apr. 2026
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Last year, Deloitte produced two reports for government clients in Australia and Canada that were both found to be riddled with fabrications.—
Tristan Bove,
Fortune,
3 Apr. 2026
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“Perjuries.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/perjuries. Accessed 11 Apr. 2026.
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