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Recent Examples of apocryphal
The song uses John Lee Hooker’s track of the same name, about a devastating flood in Tupelo, as a jumping off point for an apocryphal tale about Elvis Presley’s birth in the same Mississippi city.
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Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 29 July 2025
The music felt almost secondary to apocryphal stories tangential to the music.
—Daniel Fienberg, HollywoodReporter, 22 July 2025
Whether or not apocryphal rains be in the heavenly cards, twos are best reserved for book ends and bicycles wheels.
—Paul Cappiello, The Courier-Journal, 2 July 2025
An apocryphal story has George Washington breakfasting with Thomas Jefferson and referring to the Senate as a saucer intended to cool the passions of the intemperate lower chamber.
—Mark Z. Barabak, Los Angeles Times, 18 June 2025
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Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 29 July 2025
The music felt almost secondary to apocryphal stories tangential to the music.
—Daniel Fienberg, HollywoodReporter, 22 July 2025
Whether or not apocryphal rains be in the heavenly cards, twos are best reserved for book ends and bicycles wheels.
—Paul Cappiello, The Courier-Journal, 2 July 2025
An apocryphal story has George Washington breakfasting with Thomas Jefferson and referring to the Senate as a saucer intended to cool the passions of the intemperate lower chamber.
—Mark Z. Barabak, Los Angeles Times, 18 June 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for apocryphal
Adjective
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Overreaction to speculative news remains a significant risk to investors.—
Dryden Pence,
Forbes.com,
16 Sep. 2025
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Any financial instruments mentioned herein are speculative in nature and may involve risk to principal and interest.—
Katie Stockton,
CNBC,
15 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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Inaccurate debunks Amid the recycled imagery, authentic pictures of National Guard members sleeping on the floor of a federal building in Los Angeles this week were falsely described as old or unauthentic.—
Emma Li,
CBS News,
11 June 2025
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Both games made changes to the core formula that longtime players didn't appreciate, such as an influx of unauthentic skins and a departure from the class system.—
Thomas G. Moukawsher,
Newsweek,
5 Feb. 2025
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Denholm also said she isn’t entirely sold on the idea of Tesla investing in Musk’s xAI, a hypothetical that shareholders will vote on at the company’s annual meeting in November.—
Liz Hoffman,
semafor.com,
16 Sep. 2025
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Unfortunately, this risk isn’t just hypothetical.—
Bernard Marr,
Forbes.com,
15 Sep. 2025
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Being an undocumented immigrant is a civil offense, not a crime.—
Zoe Sottile,
CNN Money,
14 Sep. 2025
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Laken Riley, a 22 year-old college student in Georgia, was killed last year by Jose Ibarra, an undocumented immigrant.—
Briah Lumpkins,
Charlotte Observer,
11 Sep. 2025
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Nick Saban, the legendary Alabama Crimson Tide coach turned ESPN analyst, likes Miami’s chances of taking the win at home and ending USF’s early Cinderella run to the 2025 season.—
Jordan McPherson,
Miami Herald,
14 Sep. 2025
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Yes, Neil Young was finally back at Shoreline Amphitheatre on Friday night, making his first appearance at the Mountain View venue since the last chapter of the legendary annual Bridge School Benefit Concerts unfolded in 2016.—
Jim Harrington,
Mercury News,
13 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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That volume of data is impractical to fit theoretical models to deliver large-scale, accurate predictions.—
Robert Lea,
Space.com,
16 Sep. 2025
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The material enhances performance The team elucidated the material’s mechanism through a series of experimental analyses, including solid-state nuclear magnetic resonance (ssNMR) spectroscopy, electron spin resonance (EPR) spectroscopy, and theoretical calculations.—
Mrigakshi Dixit,
Interesting Engineering,
16 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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There are some exceptions to this mode of fanciful speculation.—
Kate Wagner,
Curbed,
5 Sep. 2025
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Despite the fanciful name, though, the structures are actually tombs.—
Andrea Margolis,
FOXNews.com,
4 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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Nowadays, these routes and addresses can sometimes call to my mind the Camino Real—the old Spanish road lost and buried but commuted upon daily—or that mythic expanse of the Mediterranean where Odysseus lost his way and people live and work to this day.—
Manuel Muñoz,
Literary Hub,
11 Sep. 2025
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For baseball aficionados, the name Sandy Koufax is almost mythical.—
Steve Futterman,
NPR,
9 Sep. 2025
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“Apocryphal.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/apocryphal. Accessed 19 Sep. 2025.
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