false sense
collocation in Englishmeaningsoffalseandsense
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false
adjective
uk/fɒls/us/fɑːls/
not real, but made to look or ...
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sense
noun
uk/sens/us/sens/
an ability to understand, recognize, value, or react to something, especially any of the five physical abilities to see, hear, smell, taste, ...
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(Definition offalseandsensefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
Examplesoffalse sense
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Guidelines can give the practitioner afalsesenseof security.
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The unwary will be lulled into afalsesenseof security and happily accept a possibly wrong result.
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But these medical miracles may have lured women into afalsesenseof security with respect to age.
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That the albums in some ways conveyed afalsesenseof security is another matter.
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These serve to create a completelyfalsesenseof continuity between human and animal societies.
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Without question, some minimal level of experimental design is critical for evaluation efforts, lest afalsesenseof knowledge be derived from severely flawed methodologies.
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The subcommittees are going through motions that induce what he feels is a whollyfalsesenseof encouragement.
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She suggests that measures improving the security of sites may increase trust, but there is the danger they will create afalsesenseof security.
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In actual fact it inspired afalsesenseof confidence.
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But the remainder of the built environment research community should not indulge in anyfalsesenseof inferiority here.
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The danger here is that recognition of ethnic similarities will contribute to thefalsesensethat program designers and implementers need not be concerned with the cultural background of consumers.
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The ambiguity not only on occasion gave him afalsesenseof strength but also prompted his enemies to strike at him, when necessary, where he was at his weakest.
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Having discovered that a few of them are common has only given us afalsesenseof bravado about our ability to predict and control the future.
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Fear for our own security often causes us to adopt strategies that create afalsesenseof security.
FromEuroparl Parallel Corpus - English
However, this consensus must not be allowed to give afalsesenseof security or draw attention away from actual developments.
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They create afalsesenseof security among consumers.
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It could be misleading and give people afalsesenseof security.
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Hansard archive
Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0
It is particularly important that no suchfalsesenseof security should be built up at a time when meat supplies are regrettably short.
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Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0
These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors.
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