How to Use bogus in a Sentence

bogus

adjective
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  • But after the victims wire that money, their banks alert them that the check from the scammers was bogus.
    — Ron Hurtibise, Sun Sentinel, 8 Sep. 2022
  • Maria Hadden, 49th, adding her name was listed on the bogus notices.
    — Rosemary Sobol, Chicago Tribune, 29 Sep. 2022
  • Trump continued to push bogus claims about the 2020 election.
    — al, 18 Sep. 2022
  • Thirty-three of them received about $2.5 million in bogus returns, according to the lawsuit.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 Oct. 2022
  • But nearly every time Best investigated them, they were found to be bogus, according to the Times.
    — Ali Francis, Bon Appétit, 11 Oct. 2022
  • If the Notes were bogus, however, why did Eliot include them in subsequent collections of his verse, where length was no longer an issue?
    — Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 26 Sep. 2022
  • But apart from occasional dust-ups with activists about waste storage or bogus cancer-rate statistics in the surrounding area, there isn’t much noise about shutting it down.
    — Mark Naida, WSJ, 12 Sep. 2022
  • But the attempt to normalize Eichner by imitating the rom-com formula is what makes Bros bogus.
    — Armond White, National Review, 30 Sep. 2022
  • Those plates, made of cartilage, are lately a source of trouble: Poachers are killing reef manta rays to supply quacks who peddle the material in a bogus remedy.
    — Terence Monmaney, Smithsonian Magazine, 20 Sep. 2022
  • The bogus tags were supposedly fashioned by the former police commissioner, Dragon.
    — Jacqueline Charles, Miami Herald, 20 June 2024
  • But as Jeremy Pelzer reports, bogus jobless claims still remain an issue, and some Ohioans are still struggling to address problems created by past fraud.
    — Laura Hancock, cleveland, 14 Sep. 2022
  • 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
  • Lawyers for the families call the debts bogus and are challenging them in court.
    — Tovia Smith, NPR, 14 June 2024
  • With that, the court threw a big wrench into all the plans to drag Trump from one bogus trial to another.
    — Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 4 July 2024
  • 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
  • Therefore, Feuerstein spent a lot of filming time with his face in a mountain of bogus blow.
    — Kimberly Roots, TVLine, 25 June 2024
  • 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.
    — CBS News, 20 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.
    — Nerdwallet, oregonlive, 21 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
  • One of the joys of parenthood is the discovery that there is always more to give, that love is a deep, deep well, and that any concept of balance is bogus.
    — Honor Jones, The Atlantic, 20 Oct. 2022
  • Overwhelmed users might either take offers of faux assistance that lead to identity theft, or throw away money on bogus solutions to this problem.
    — Richard Forno, The Conversation, 19 July 2024

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