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But the Lions’ rash of injuries this year could show the ultimate fallacy of that argument.—
Josh Kendall,
The Athletic,
7 Jan. 2025 -
The Harvard cognitive scientist Steven Pinker has had much to say about Whorfian fallacies.—
Manvir Singh,
The New Yorker,
23 Dec. 2024
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Watch on Deadline In the wake of his father’s disappearance at sea, Kojo, a young Ghanaian is drawn into a world of street gang and deception.—
Melanie Goodfellow,
Deadline,
14 Jan. 2025
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Directed by Su Biao, the comedy about a woman entangled in financial deception has remained a steady performer since its release on Dec. 31.—
Naman Ramachandran,
Variety,
13 Jan. 2025
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Aside from the urgent response, the disaster has also attracted damaging misinformation and falsehoods.—
Kristen Waggoner,
Newsweek,
21 Jan. 2025
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This means all the hullabaloo that the skinny jean will be making a comeback is a falsehood.—
Sherry Kuehl,
Kansas City Star,
16 Jan. 2025
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As Sara’s delusions start to involve the game show’s host and live studio audience on TV start to mock her, her refrigarator also comes alive and attacks her.—
Chris O'Falt,
IndieWire,
14 Jan. 2025
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Yet everything that goes up must come down, and hubris is one of the major symptoms of delusions of grandeur.—
Agustino Fontevecchia,
Forbes,
14 Jan. 2025
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“Speciousness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/speciousness. Accessed 29 Jan. 2025.
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