canard

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Meaning

An extravagant or absurd report or story; a fabricated sensational report or statement; esp. one set afloat in the newspapers to hoax the public.

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Early on, the seeds of the Russia canard was also sown, an attempt by a traumatised establishment to suggest that the man in the White House was nothing more than a puppet of the Kremlin. Source: Internet

Another popular health canard is that dietary saturated fat and cholesterol are horrible, evil things that seek only to clog our arteries, thicken our blood, and pad our waistlines. Source: Internet

Canards on the Saab Viggen Some types have a horizontal " canard " foreplane ahead of the main wing, instead of behind it. Source: Internet

Friday 25 August 2006--hey say that America's increasingly right-wing courts are bent on halting the forward march of civil rights, but that's a typical liberal canard. Source: Internet

I have noticed this new singular reliance on the tax and spend canard among Republicans who are appalled at the current warm embrace of bigoted theocrats and/or inchoate, messianic global adventuring. Source: Internet

Confit de canard is always my favorite guilty pleasure, and the potatoes are sublime! Source: Internet

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