Example Sentences

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The terminal operators, shipping companies and other industries dependent on the movement of cargo argue, spuriously, that these port pollution rules are actually just limits on economic activity.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 15, 2024

After a further exchange of words, Mangum said the officer called Multnomah County sheriff’s deputies to the scene and spuriously claimed Mangum had threatened to assault him.

From Seattle Times • Aug. 22, 2022

There, Mr. Zamora was spuriously charged with money-laundering, blackmail and influence-peddling.

From Washington Post • Aug. 4, 2022

You seem to selectively reference studies that claim spuriously that without the decline in smoking, there would have not been any real decline in overall cancer mortality.

From Scientific American • Feb. 23, 2020

She liked the park because, however spuriously, it re-created something of the landscape she had known.

From "Go Tell It on the Mountain" by James Baldwin