as in misrepresentation
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for falsification
Noun
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The spread of misinformation about fluoride also plays a role.—
Nicholas Creel,
MSNBC Newsweek,
18 Apr. 2025 -
Sometimes, a bond sell-off is triggered by misinformation or something that isn't justified by economic fundamentals.—
Susan Tompor,
USA Today,
18 Apr. 2025
Noun
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In the larger sense, along with truth comes a distortion of it, sometimes innocently and inadvertently but, more often than not, by design and for ulterior purposes.—
Eli Amdur,
Forbes.com,
13 Apr. 2025
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These distortions reduce a complex conflict to a morality play.—
U T Readers,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
10 Apr. 2025
Noun
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Once a political unknown, Santos gained national notoriety for his fabrications and legal troubles.—
Amanda Castro,
MSNBC Newsweek,
25 Apr. 2025
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From the bottom to the top, the AI business stack includes companies starting from chip design and fabrication/foundry to data centers, hyperscalers and product companies, each built on top of the other for its survival.—
Sajal Singh,
Forbes.com,
23 Apr. 2025
Noun
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In some contexts, [Lay] is the past tense of lie, as in recline.—
Sam Corbin,
New York Times,
22 Apr. 2025
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Perhaps that’s what makes my lies defective and disjointed.—
Domenico Starnone,
New Yorker,
20 Apr. 2025
Noun
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Their suffering has often been dismissed as exaggeration, hysteria, or simply the cost of existence.—
Jayne Mattingly,
Time,
16 Apr. 2025
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Unfortunately, this plot element isn’t an exaggeration for dramatic effect.—
Maria Flynn,
Forbes.com,
14 Apr. 2025
Noun
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Many of the most outrageous falsehoods were aimed at Bolsonaro’s opponent, Fernando Haddad.—
Jon Lee Anderson,
New Yorker,
7 Apr. 2025
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In everything from politics to health, falsehoods propagated across social media cause immense harm.—
David Robert Grimes,
Scientific American,
3 Apr. 2025
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“Falsification.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/falsification. Accessed 29 Apr. 2025.
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