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Noun
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March Madness once reveled in the charm of the underdog, but Cinderella is dead, the fairy tale exposed as fallacy in the new era.—
Greg Cote,
Miami Herald,
31 Mar. 2025 -
That same fallacy is taking root among AI’s biggest backers.—
Allison Morrow,
CNN Money,
27 Mar. 2025
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This capability to detect deception should be a warning to everyone who relies on AI for critical thinking tasks.—
Jodie Cook,
Forbes.com,
31 Mar. 2025
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Not only do language barriers complicate your talking with her parents, but the deception has already begun — this girl has been regularly visiting your home under false pretenses.—
Kwame Anthony Appiah,
New York Times,
28 Mar. 2025
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People are increasingly willing to reject obvious falsehoods, and activists are decreasingly effective at intimidation.—
Abigail Anthony,
National Review,
3 Apr. 2025
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Robert Newton, a Columbia oceanographer, said the grant cancellations were based on a falsehood that Columbia had abandoned its obligations to its Jewish students.—
Cayla Bamberger,
New York Daily News,
7 Mar. 2025
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Many of these protagonists endure the tedium and humiliation of involuntary psychiatric hospitalizations, losing days and years to paralyzing inertia, and experiencing terrifying delusions of persecution and betrayal.—
Moira Donegan,
New Yorker,
26 Mar. 2025
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That would be you, the audience, fed a royal jelly concocted of dream, fantasy, myth, popcorn, even delusion.—
Tom Gliatto,
People.com,
26 Mar. 2025
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“Speciousness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/speciousness. Accessed 16 Apr. 2025.
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