speciousness

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for speciousness
Noun
  • Adapt And Act With Integrity The ability to foresee every PR crisis is a fallacy.
    Expert Panel®, Forbes.com, 8 July 2025
  • Denialists tend to cherry-pick evidence, set impossible levels of evidence and engage in logical fallacies.
    H. Christopher Frey, The Conversation, 5 June 2025
Noun
  • This deception couldn’t come at a worse time for America’s debt.
    Thomas Kahn, Chicago Tribune, 8 July 2025
  • Unlike earlier studies that uncovered evasion or deception, this research exposed a more alarming phenomenon: models calculating that unethical behavior was a justifiable strategy for survival.
    Hamilton Mann, Forbes.com, 29 June 2025
Noun
  • One of the company's meteorologists, Jonathan Belles, debunked some of the most common falsehoods surrounding severe storms, recommending tips on how to best prepare for them.
    Katie Wiseman, The Courier-Journal, 2 July 2025
  • The fact that the development and rollout follow Trump's falsehoods about widespread noncitizen voting makes election experts wary of how this new tool will work.
    Miles Parks, NPR, 28 June 2025
Noun
  • The private and personalized nature of AI use makes its mental health impact difficult to track, but the evidence of potential harms is mounting, from professional apathy to attachments to new forms of delusion.
    Parmy Olson, Mercury News, 12 July 2025
  • At his trial, Fish's children described a chaotic home life marked by erratic behavior, religious delusions and violence.
    Christina Coulter, People.com, 12 July 2025
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“Speciousness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/speciousness. Accessed 19 Jul. 2025.

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