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Noun
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Alfred North Whitehead called this the fallacy of misplaced concreteness.—
Gautam Mukunda,
Mercury News,
19 May 2026 -
But some surgeons call this a fallacy.—
Jolene Edgar,
Allure,
14 May 2026
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But in a further deception orchestrated by the Devil, the king’s mother is ordered to kill the queen and her child.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
3 June 2026
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Red-team against deliberate deception, not just natural variability.—
Expert Panel®,
Forbes.com,
1 June 2026
Noun
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Santos, whose political rise and fall was characterized by a notorious trail of lies and falsehoods, claimed my story was riddled with errors.—
Bobby Allyn,
NPR,
4 June 2026
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For my part, new management has instructed me to inject falsehoods and bias into a politically sensitive story.—
Joanna Ossinger,Laya Neelakandan,
CNBC,
3 June 2026
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Liaquat Ahamed has spent his career studying the moments when the world’s financial system breaks down — the bad bets, the collective delusions, and the geopolitical accidents that tip economies into catastrophe.—
Nick Lichtenberg,
Fortune,
2 June 2026
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Among these delusions is the perennial faith that Iranians are potentially ardent converts to American-style freedom, rather than inheritors of an ancient civilization with a trajectory outlined by its own specific history.—
Wyatt Williams,
Harpers Magazine,
2 June 2026
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