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were myths
noun
A traditional story which embodies a belief regarding some fact or phenomenon of experience, and in which often the forces of nature and of the soul are personified; a sacred narrative regarding a god, a hero, the origin of the world or of a people, etc.
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"There were myths about the Soviet policeman.
But those were myths, of course; there was never remotely as much waste and fraud as the right claimed.
She added that the idea of dons taking six-month holidays and spending afternoons punting on the river were "myths".
Also on Tuesday, C.A. put out a series of tweets trying to dispel what it claimed were myths about its actions in 2016: "We used no data from Facebook in our models.
Before I read SPQR by Mary Beard (Profile), there were myths about Rome I half-remembered and didn't understand, there were senators and emperors I thought were purely fictional, there were hundreds of years of republic I hadn't realised were significant.
At two rallies in Oregon before arriving here to watch the presidential debate, Mr. Edwards cited a newspaper article that quoted Treasury Secretary John W. Snow as saying the net loss of jobs during President Bush's term and the evaporation of a multibillion dollar federal budget surplus were "myths".
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Free education and health care are myths.
Other ideas, however dearly held, are myths.
"These are myths," says SMMT spokesman Keith Lewis.
"Both of those are myths," she says.
There are myths and stigma attached to it" (#17).
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