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Use "mystifications" in a sentence
"As William Michael Rossetti explained in his introduction to the 1901 facsimile of The Germ: "All about Chiaro dell 'Erma himself, Dresden and Dr. Aemmster, D'Agincourt, pictures at the Pitti Gallery, the author's visit to Florence in 1847, etc., are pure inventions or' mystifications '; but so realistically put that they have in various instances been relied upon and cited as truths.""
"It originated in, and to some extent still retains traces of, one of the silly and ill-bred "mystifications" in which the eighteenth and early nineteenth century delighted. ["
"Deserving of a Nobel Prize in patience to go along with the one he received in economics, Krugman argues, explains, provides facts, and demystifies mystifications."