Example Sentences

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It declined to dig into the research and warn other courts across the country about the speciousness of the warrior gene theory.

From Washington Post • Mar. 18, 2021

The brilliant Ruby Tandoh recently examined the speciousness of some of the faux-scientific thinking underpinning various of these works.

From The Guardian • Jun. 16, 2016

I was among those who spent years protesting the speciousness of this claim, until Foster finally was forced to drop it and concede that John Ford wrote the poem.

From Slate • Oct. 27, 2011

Like one of those smart middlebrow TV shows, the speciousness of is disguised by its topicality.

From The Guardian • Jan. 30, 2011

For it would be to small purpose to give another sense, with some speciousness, to one or two points, if the great mass of matter and argument remain untouched.

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