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canard
K AH0 N AA1 R D :
Noun
1. A false or misleading report or story, especially if deliberately so.
2. A type of aircraft in which the primary horizontal control and stabilization surfaces are in front of the main wing.
3. Any small winglike structure on a vehicle, usually used for stabilization.
[Source: Wiktionary]
a deliberately misleading fabrication
[Source: WordNet]
Gingrich's canard is noteworthy because of its hackneyed Cold War-style conflation of Obama's liberal domestic policies and the lurking evil of secularism. Link
...aircraft performance is much more sensitive to canard size than to tail size. Link
Radicals of the right push this canard like a mindless mantra,but the recent Republican administration experiment (aka, “The Bush Years”) have shown this to be a myth. Link
I no longer believe this canard that a person must personally know someone to believe in his rights or that he is, in fact, a human being. Link
The arguments he presents are all old creationist canards, long deconstructed by scientists. Link
So why are we still talking about mercury in vaccines? Because those who are genuinely anti-vaccine keep using this canard as a scare tactic. Link
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