SUPPOSITIOUS Synonyms: 47 Similar and Opposite Words

suppositious

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To get to the bottom of the mystery of the article’s spurious dating, Cade and a team of researchers from around the globe sifted through historic reports and observations of geomagnetic activity to set the record straight.

— Mike McRae October 15, New Atlas, 16 Oct. 2026
These spurious claims about childhood vaccines will only increase vaccine hesitation with harmful results.

— Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 13 Aug. 2026

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As on television, Seyfried nails Holmes’s wide eyes, unsteady mannerisms, deep voice, and mysterious vocal cadence that makes the character both unreal and oddly human.

— Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 17 Oct. 2026
If there were any more life to the filmmaking, this tension could least be interesting, but the results are both perky and inert, unreal but entirely unmoored in time and space.

— Guy Lodge, Variety, 17 Oct. 2026

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Earlier today, key members of the viral pseudo-political movement, Cockroach Janta Party, were detained for protesting without permission.

— Priyanka Salve, CNBC, 13 Oct. 2026
The audience gets glimmers of Katie and Greg’s relationship, but the show is bogged down by dull characters like the policeman who seems to have it out for Greg, and even by its focus on Archie’s point of view, which is just a depiction of narcissism and a formulaic pseudo-midlife crisis.

— Aramide Tinubu, Variety, 5 Mar. 2026

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In a separate prescription fraud scheme, Christina Mareik, 61, of Whittier, was charged for her role in allegedly submitting thousands of bogus prescriptions for high-reimbursement generic drugs to Medi-Cal, California's Medicaid program.

— Louis Casiano, FOXNews.com, 22 Oct. 2026
Hubbard had been imprisoned since 2022 on charges that Hostage Aid Worldwide, a hostage advocacy group, has called bogus.

— Dasha Litvinova, Los Angeles Times, 21 Oct. 2026

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