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Discover LudwigThe phrase "a false security" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a situation where someone feels safe or secure, but that feeling is misleading or not based on reality.
Example: "The company's financial reports gave investors a false security, masking the underlying issues that would soon lead to bankruptcy."
Alternatives: "a deceptive sense of safety" or "an illusion of security".
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But it's a false security.
"Knowing where the offender works and lives is a false security statement," said Assemblywoman Nia Gill.
We are again learning, the hard way, that this is a false security.
These assertions that "torture works" may reassure a fearful public, but it is a false security.
Charlie Savage's "Takeover: The Return of the Imperial Presidency and the Subversion of American Democracy" makes urgent a question virtually absent from this campaign so far: how does the next president rebuild a constitutional order dismantled by executive coup in the name of a false security?
There is a false security that comes with being spoken to in the very slow, very clear, perfectly-formed French spoken only by French teachers.
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"The state aid provided a sense of false security which prevented the press from reforming itself".
If it gets out of hand it could give you a sense of false security".
We have been fooled by a sense of false security, of permanence.
Ignoring the potential NCD status enables the person to live in a state of false security and comfort.
Luring vulnerable older adults into a plan because of the promise of a medication benefit offers false security.
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