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Recent Examples of falsification
Cho’s team last month requested a 10-year prison term for Yoon’s earlier defiance of authorities’ attempts to execute his detainment warrant and other charges such as abuse of power and falsification of official documents.
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Hyung-Jin Kim, Los Angeles Times, 13 Jan. 2026
Hayer was also indicted on the charge of falsification of an official indictment.
—Tim Fang, CBS News, 16 Dec. 2025
That falsification led to lower import duties.
—Rosemary Feitelberg, Footwear News, 1 Oct. 2025
The first jury, by contrast, deliberated for days before acquitting Amiri of conspiracy, multiple deprivation-of-rights charges and convicting him of the single dog attack and records falsification.
—Nate Gartrell, Mercury News, 19 Sep. 2025
Hoadley was sentenced to three months in prison after a jury convicted him of destruction, alteration or falsification of records, tampering with a witness by harassment, and tampering with documents.
—Alex Brizee, Idaho Statesman, 17 Sep. 2025
With 64% of job applicants admitting to résumé falsification, up from 55% just two years ago, according to StandOut CV, companies are hemorrhaging money on staffing and bad hires while genuine talent slips through traditional screening processes.
—Douglas B. Laney, Forbes.com, 30 Aug. 2025
Hernandez was charged with 19 counts of misconduct including theft of identity, fraud, falsification of Medicaid documents, nursing without a license and abuse of a patient, officials said.
—Paloma Chavez, Sacbee.com, 29 Aug. 2025
As part of its safety crackdown, the federal goverment is moving toward a requirement that medical paperwork be stored electronically to limit falsification.
—Trevor Hughes, USA Today, 22 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for falsification
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There was a bill introduced last legislative session that would have empowered citizens to sue for allegedly deceptive practices, fraud, harassment, intimidation or misrepresentation during the acquisition of land access agreements by carbon pipeline land agents.—
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The misrepresentation of the acts of Jan 6, 2021, and the recent death of Renee Nicole Goode in Minneapolis highlight the illusion of truth and its perils to society.—
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Due to misstatement by CoreWeave’s CEO, a prior version of this story had an incorrect figure for the number of data centers.—
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One study — admittedly small and enabled by the hack of affair-arranging app Ashley Madison in 2015 — found that companies whose CEOs or CFOs were paying users of the site were twice as likely to have had a financial misstatement or involvement in a securities class action.—
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In October 2023, Jemma DeCristo tweeted on social media there’s easy access to Zionist journalists who spread propaganda and misinformation.—
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Macron denied that Vinatier worked for the French state and described his arrest as part of a misinformation campaign by Moscow.—
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That's when the voice distortion comes into play — but due to a history of viewers trying to cheat the system, The Masked Singer team does even more to deceive the audience.—
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However, practical deployment has been prevented by sensitivity to ambient light, waveform distortion in LEDs, according to a press release.—
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The board’s decision cited a piece from The New York Times that reported the fabrication rate of some new AI systems was as high as 79%.—
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Zand said chants supporting Pahlavi during recent protests reflect genuine sentiment, not fabrication, though such claims are difficult to independently verify amid internet shutdowns and state censorship.—
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Whenever the president floated some bizarre policy idea, issued a new threat, or told a brazen lie about the state of the economy, Hassett would be one of the first people on cable news justifying it.—
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Our entire relationship was built on a lie.—
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Speaking of which, the concept of royalty among members of PFV is no exaggeration, though some of the blue blood flowing through members’ veins is merely aristocratic.—
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The deliberate exaggeration of both Lee’s performance and Park’s direction is what draws us into a suspension of moral disbelief, a sense of complicity with Man-su’s outrageous scheme.—
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Fairness can’t be built on falsehoods.—
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Those bogus images and videos spread not just on X, but also along other superhighways of falsehoods, notably the Meta platforms Instagram, Facebook and Threads, albeit with less engagement.—
Cite this Entry
“Falsification.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/falsification. Accessed 20 Jan. 2026.
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