(n.) An extravagant or absurd report or story; a fabricated sensational report or statement; esp. one set afloat in the newspapers to hoax the public.
Example Sentences:
(1) I adored Chez Elles in Brick Lane's Banglatown; and Otto's , on Gray's Inn Road, looks set to be the capital's next insider secret, with a menu that doesn't appear to have met the 21st century: it does canard à la presse, for goodness sake.
(2) Let’s deal first with an increasingly popular canard: the idea that academics are biased in their research because they get “EU money”.
(3) (Harris' own ugly canard would come as news to CAIR , the leading Muslim advocacy group, as well as most of the world's Muslims ).
(4) But at the end of last week, Fillon awoke to news of the publication in Le Canard Enchaîné of highly damaging revelations that he had employed his wife Penelope, in what the newspaper implied was a well-paid parliamentary assistant role, funded with public money.
(5) Raven also vows not to be exercised by common feminist canards such as "the dearth of women on the boards of FTSE 100 companies" and will not "deal in caricatures".
(6) "I have a great respect for Archbishop Tutu's fight against apartheid – where we were on the same side of the argument – but to repeat the old canard that we lied about the intelligence is completely wrong as every single independent analysis of the evidence has shown.
(7) Anthony Cary, the former British high commissioner to Canada, who conducted the investigation, reported that "a canard that was widely shared and passed down during handovers" included the explanation that the FCO was holding the archive because there had been a fire at Hayes.
(8) This makes me smile.” Last year, Le Canard Enchaîné, the French satirical newspaper, reported that Mike Turner, a Republican on the US House of Representatives’ permanent select committee on intelligence, had urged American intelligence agencies to look into Le Pen’s Russia connections.
(9) This canard is regularly trotted out to justify a host of dubious British arms deals, energy and prison contracts, lucrative inward investment and property schemes – and the ignoring of Saudi Arabia’s appalling human rights record.
(10) A n old canard about feminists is that, in addition to being hirsute bra-burners, we want to turn all women into “victims” – and thanks to “ Women Against Feminism ”, this particular accusation has gained some moderately mainstream traction in recent weeks .
(11) Photograph: Alamy For good measure you can bike along its lanes, canoe on its rivers and enjoy the area's confit du canard , Bergerac wines, chèvre, walnut oil and truffles.
(12) "According to a canard that was widely shared and passed down during handovers," the inquiry found, the FCO was holding the archive after a fire at the other organisation.
(13) Sam Harris in 2005 : "In our dealings with the Muslim world, we must acknowledge that Muslims have not found anything of substance to say against the actions of the September 11 hijackers, apart from the ubiquitous canard that they were really Jews."
(14) Or perhaps I should just extend an invitation to my house (if she dares) where I would regale her with homemade tarte tatin, confit de canard, and food tales from my childhood.
(15) The entrenched tradition of mocking religions and clerical institutions explains the success of long-living publications such as Le Canard Enchaîné (a satirical founded in 1915) and Charlie Hebdo (founded in 1969).
(16) On Wednesday, the magazine Le Canard Enchainé revealed Thévenoud had also failed to pay the rent on his Paris apartment on the chic left bank of the river Seine for three years.
(17) The satirical and investigative weekly Le Canard Enchaîné claimed that there were various periods during which Penelope Fillon, who was born in Wales, was paid a generous salary from public funds that were allocated to her husband as an MP for the central Sarthe region to pay for parliamentary staff.
(18) Cary later reported that "a canard that was widely shared and passed down" included the explanation that the FCO was holding the archive on behalf of a private company that had suffered a fire.
(19) It would still be 100% BBC and publicly owned, but could then offer market rate pay and conditions for production talent and remove the ridiculous comparison to the prime minister’s salary and other canards.
(20) On a visit to Bordeaux, Fillon told reporters that he was “scandalised” by the Canard Enchaîné article, which he described as “misogynistic”.
Canary
Definition:
(a.) Of or pertaining to the Canary Islands; as, canary wine; canary birds.
(a.) Of a pale yellowish color; as, Canary stone.
(n.) Wine made in the Canary Islands; sack.
(n.) A canary bird.
(n.) A pale yellow color, like that of a canary bird.
(n.) A quick and lively dance.
(v. i.) To perform the canary dance; to move nimbly; to caper.
Example Sentences:
(1) What the Qataris own in Britain • HSBC Tower, the bank’s global headquarters in Canary Wharf • The Shard on the south bank of the Thames (95%) • Harrods, bought in 2010 for a reported £1.5bn • The Olympic Village in east London • Numbers 1-3 Cornwall Terrace, Regent’s Park – this week denied planning permission to be turned into a £200m single home • A 50% stake in the Shell Centre on London’s South Bank • Half of One Hyde Park, the world’s most expensive apartment block • The former US embassy building in Grosvenor Square • The site of Chelsea Barracks in west London, being turned into a luxury housing estate • 20% slice of Camden market • Stakes in Barclays, Sainsbury’s, the London Stock Exchange and Heathrow • And coming soon: Canary Wharf, after the controlling group capitulated and recommended a £2.6bn bid to shareholders Julia Kollewe
(2) Adult male canaries learn to produce high-amplitude complex courtship songs each breeding season, whereas females do not, and brain nuclei involved with the production of song behavior are much larger in breeding males than in nonbreeding males or females (Nottebohm, 1980, 1981).
(3) Because female canaries do not normally sing, neurons in female HVc must develop response selectivity by a mechanism different from that proposed for male birds in the motor theory of song perception.
(4) The endogenous stages of Isospora serini Arogão and Isospora canaria Box are described from experimentally infected canaries, Serinus canarius Linnaeus.
(5) Examined coding regions of the canary c-myc gene were also highly related to their mammalian counterparts, but in contrast to N-myc, the canary and mammalian c-myc genes were quite divergent in their 3' untranslated regions.
(6) The company has already attracted formal censure over its cheerfully casual approach to taking on debt; in January it was forced to remove a page from its website that suggested its loans had advantages over student loans (neglecting to mention its APR of 4,214% and the current student loan rate of 1.5%), and inviting students to borrow money from them for things such as holiday flights to the Canaries.
(7) In male canaries examined during the song season, HAT-2 RNA shows variable expression within the song control circuit, and is notably less abundant in the three nuclei which concentrate androgens (HVC, RA and L-MAN).
(8) Qatar’s royal family may have snapped up Canary Wharf for £2.6bn this week, adding to its London portfolio of Harrods and the Shard skyscraper, but the Gulf billionaires’ property spree has finally run into a dead end – a humble town hall bureaucrat.
(9) Opta Joe's warning about the Canaries was very relevant indeed.
(10) The latter is fresh out of university, fluent in English and wears a canary-yellow silk blouse and tight jeans with a large designer handbag.
(11) The ultraviolet (UV) radiation doses received by 270 psoriasis patients were studied during 4-week climate therapy periods in November, March or April in the Canary Islands.
(12) I've been successful enough, but there are still times when I feel like the canary down the mine."
(13) Growth rate, nitrogen balance, skeletal muscle nitrogen fractions and in vivo intestinal absorption of D-galactose (2 mM) and L-leucine (20 mM) have been measured in male growing rats (90-100 g initial body weight) fed 12% protein diets containing either casein (control) or the raw leafy legume Chamaecytisus proliferus L. (Western Canary Islands).
(14) In a way the judiciary is the canary in the mine, because when courts and tribunals close their doors and won't tell lawyers and complainants what is going on, you know that an essential part of a free society is in the process of being degraded.
(15) He may yet return to Sporting Park though, with his initial loan deal at the Canaries running out at the end of this season.
(16) Several avian viruses (infectious bursal disease virus, Newcastle disease virus, Canary pox virus, and reovirus) formed plaques under agar.
(17) The trust is often the "canary in the mine" at the frontline of change affecting the natural environment and thinking about what this means for the places that we manage.
(19) Leaves or fruit from 14 plants considered to be toxic to pet birds were administered by gavage to 15 pairs of canaries (Serinus canaria).
(20) Thymidine autoradiography and retrograde transport of horseradish peroxidase (HRP) were combined to determine the connectivity of neurons born in adult canary forebrain.