sophistry

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Recent Examples of sophistry And if Pep Guardiola and Mikel Arteta try to point it out before Manchester City faces Arsenal on Sunday, it will be viewed as gamesmanship, or deflection, or unapologetic sophistry. Rory Smith, New York Times, 29 Mar. 2024 Amid the verbal sophistry of recent months, it’s become increasingly clear that actions speak far louder. Andrew C. McCarthy, National Review, 23 Dec. 2023 Many of Khan’s progressive allies have floated a much more realistic cure for Khan’s abysmal litigation track record: to rewrite antitrust laws in Congress, where laws are made, instead of losing case after case in court with tortured legalistic sophistry and ad hoc judicial rulemaking. Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, Fortune, 7 Dec. 2023 Today, no amount of sophistry can sustain that claim. Andrew J. Bacevich, Foreign Affairs, 28 Feb. 2023 See All Example Sentences for sophistry
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Noun
  • The composition has many hallmarks of surrealism, including dream logic – the strange, flowing and often illogical progression of images reflecting the unpredictable nature of dreams – metamorphosis and psychic ambiguity.
    Sally Jane Brown, The Conversation, 29 Sep. 2025
  • The ambiguity of authorship is meant to unsettle the reading of the text.
    Lana Lin September 29, Literary Hub, 29 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • The unscripted show will feature a group of contestants who undergo physical and mental challenges, collecting clues before they are launched into a real-life game of detective work and deception.
    Ethan Shanfeld, Variety, 7 Oct. 2025
  • The series will feature a group of contestants facing physical and mental challenges to collect clues before stepping into a real-life game of deduction and deception.
    Peter White, Deadline, 7 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Of course, the retort is that this would be irritating and exasperating to be continually deluged with alerts about AI deceptiveness.
    Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 24 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • Successful or not, the fact that alternatives exist at all suggests virtual particles might be useful fiction rather than physical truth.
    Dipangkar Dutta, The Conversation, 3 Oct. 2025
  • As fiction and technology intersect, the project opens new terrain for narrative experimentation and audience engagement.
    Anna Marie de la Fuente, Variety, 3 Oct. 2025

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