How to Use bogus in a Sentence

bogus

adjective
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  • It was just a bogus claim.
  • The evidence was completely bogus.
  • That could be a trick to prompt you to give to a bogus site.
    — Jon Healey, Los Angeles Times, 22 Aug. 2023
  • In the days since, more bogus calls and threats have rolled in across the country.
    — Neil Vigdor, New York Times, 4 Jan. 2024
  • After all, this wouldn’t be the first time the app duped us with a bogus hack.
    — Marisa Petrarca, Allure, 3 July 2023
  • Less than a month later, the blockchain world would blow up at the hands of a bogus crypto king in the Bahamas.
    — Steven Levy, WIRED, 6 Dec. 2022
  • Her bank called to notify her that the check was bogus.
    — Lauren Krouse, Good Housekeeping, 8 Sep. 2023
  • And do not click on any unknown links that can be bogus ones mirroring the look and feel of the real Airbnb.
    — Cecilia Rodriguez, Forbes, 17 July 2023
  • Avianca pointed out the bogus case law in a March filing.
    — Larry Neumeister, Anchorage Daily News, 9 June 2023
  • The comparison, of course, is bogus—no one would say that these Kings are better than the ’95 Bulls.
    — Louisa Thomas, The New Yorker, 27 Mar. 2023
  • Many of these suits are bogus, with the defendant not owing the amount claimed in the suit and sometimes not owing anything at all.
    — Andrew Wimer, Forbes, 24 Jan. 2023
  • The Delta case is just one of the latest cases of a company being sued for bogus climate brags.
    — Eamon Barrett, Fortune, 23 June 2023
  • Get the facts and figures before signing up for something bogus.
    — Eugenia Last, The Mercury News, 24 Feb. 2024
  • Last year, one of my family’s credit cards was used to rack up hundreds of dollars in bogus charges at Apple.com.
    — Nerdwallet, oregonlive, 21 Feb. 2023
  • Last year, one of my family's credit cards was used to rack up hundreds of dollars in bogus charges at Apple.com.
    — CBS News, 20 Feb. 2023
  • The safeguards that attempted to counter the bogus claims the last time are eroding, while the tools and systems that create and spread them are only getting stronger.
    — Ali Swenson, Fortune, 28 Dec. 2023
  • How can small-market teams expect to compete when MLB allows bogus deals like this one?
    — Los Angeles Times, 16 Dec. 2023
  • Democrats in Denver are backing a measure that would blow through the state’s spending cap under the guise of a bogus property-tax cut.
    — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 12 Sep. 2023
  • The bogus drugs' ingredients, quality and safety are not yet known, the FDA said.
    — Elizabeth Napolitano, CBS News, 22 Dec. 2023
  • Even so, the software was able to compose the full text of a fictional lawsuit, and even provided a bogus case number.
    — Miles Klee, Rolling Stone, 9 June 2023
  • Here, Client 7 was told by his attorney that the Ultimate Tax Plan was bogus, and his accounts refused to sign the returns.
    — Jay Adkisson, Forbes, 12 Aug. 2023
  • This included things like clicking on a phishing email, text or bogus URL.
    — Perry Carpenter, Forbes, 21 Feb. 2023
  • Some boasted about their record of rolling back our rights and others hid their true agenda behind bogus buzzwords.
    — Isabella Murray, ABC News, 24 Aug. 2023
  • Does that mean the tingly enzyme hypothesis is bogus? Nope.
    — Ashia Aubourg, SELF, 15 June 2023
  • Dear Carolyn: My nephew is estranged from his dad, my brother, and by all accounts for bogus reasons.
    — Carolyn Hax, Washington Post, 18 Nov. 2022
  • Regulators are warning Utahns about a spate of bogus sales of vacant land.
    — Tony Semerad, The Salt Lake Tribune, 10 Dec. 2022
  • And for once this heritage has been given an overlay of dignity and restraint, free of whitewalls, free of bogus wire wheels.
    — William Jeanes, Car and Driver, 30 June 2023
  • On top of the bogus, politicized charges, China is keeping a man of advanced age in solitary confinement.
    — The Editors, National Review, 19 Dec. 2023
  • The discoveries show how the bogus parts have infiltrated planes from the United States to Australia.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 18 Sep. 2023
  • Most notably, John Eastman, who penned the bogus theory of the 2020 election being stolen, was one of their top legal fellows.
    — How To Save A Country, The New Republic, 27 Apr. 2023

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