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Six example sentences with canard, each labelled with its topic.
The claim that the census counted every household twice was a canard, repeated in three pamphlets and never once evidenced.
Politics
The old canard that we use only a tenth of our brains survives every textbook and every scan that disproves it.
Science
A canard about sugar making children bounce off walls has outlived forty years of trials showing nothing of the kind.
Medicine
The story that the queen told the hungry to eat cake is a canard, invented years later by pamphleteers.
History
The canard that newcomers take jobs from locals survives every study showing employment rising in the towns they settle.
Economics
Brokers spread the canard that the bank was about to fail, hoping to buy its shares cheap the next morning.
Finance
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