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Podcasters validate their fears and doubts, cite fallacious research, or more speciously, quote the all-purpose source of “some” or “they” without evidence.

From Salon • Nov. 7, 2024

He pointed speciously to an episode involving Thomas Jefferson as an example.

From New York Times • Nov. 16, 2021

In Taylor’s work, the dream is not to finally and speciously separate these two worlds of struggle and success, as O. J. Simpson notoriously attempted to do, but to insist on their relation.

From The New Yorker • Jul. 23, 2018

Galloway, the unanimous, tech-savvy decision in the cellphone cases—Riley—and the speciously unanimous, yet nevertheless correct, result in McCullen. I should've adopted Dahlia’s term “faux-nanimous,” which is definitely snettier—snarkier, better, and neater.

From Slate • Jun. 27, 2014

Surely less than this position, which is so speciously assumed to justify bond-service, should not be allowed to the servant who is freely such.

From The Hearth-Stone Thoughts upon Home-Life in Our Cities by Osgood, Samuel