misstate
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"He's pretty young, I will say. He's 17," the former president said, appearing to misstate his age.
From BBC ● May 10, 2024
But many legal scholars, along with university lawyers and administrators, believe at least some of those free-speech assertions muddle, misstate, test or even flout the amendment, which is meant to guard against state suppression.
From New York Times ● May 1, 2024
“When you misstate or frame statistics in a manner that support your view ...” Moore paused, then concluded his thought.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 18, 2023
Cathy McMorris Rodgers and Dan Newhouse made a number of assertions about wastewater treatment plants that misstate the role of these facilities in the health of Puget Sound.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 5, 2021
The gravest of them is, to argue sophistically, to suppress facts or arguments, to misstate the elements of the case, or misrepresent the opposite opinion.
From On Liberty by John Stuart Mill
Mr. Burke misstates the date the Air France plane was hijacked as July 6, 1976.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 20, 2026
Nikola said Milton's social media post "misstates the facts," adding in a statement to Reuters that the proposal to increase its share base could pass without his support.
From Reuters ● Jun. 16, 2023
For example, in a meeting when a person misstates something she has said, she interjects and clarifies what she meant.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 10, 2023
Bauer does not present any compelling argument as to why Thiagarajah’s using a synonym of the court’s own language misstates the court’s findings.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 30, 2022
In the argument there is this great fault, that it misstates the question at the outset.
From The Christian Life Its Course, Its Hindrances, And Its Helps by Thomas Arnold
A previous version of this report misstated the U.S.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 8, 2026
“Thus, he both misstated the purpose and location of the gathering,” the JPMorgan spokesman said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 28, 2026
Correction, April 21, 2026: This piece originally misstated that Maska left NewsNation after the 2024 election was decided.
From Slate ● Apr. 21, 2026
Correction, April 22, 2026: This piece originally misstated that citrus canker is a viral infection.
From Slate ● Apr. 20, 2026
It is clear that he wished to conceal his real age, that he falsified the date of his departure for Dalmatia, and that he somewhat misstated the nature of his intimacy with Mme.
From The Memoirs of Count Carlo Gozzi; Volume the First by Carlo Gozzi
“Santander’s decision to broadly market its new stated-income policy, even to dealers with a history of misstating income, led to a significant spike in the number of early payment defaults.”
From Salon ● Mar. 30, 2026
That report was widely criticized for misattribution and misstating the conclusions of the studies it cited.
From Barron's ● Feb. 10, 2026
In the courtroom, government lawyers actually told Judge Howell that these officials “don’t necessarily understand” legal “terms of art” like reasonable suspicion and probable cause and that they were just misstating the policy.
From Slate ● Dec. 7, 2025
She was arrested two years later on charges she defrauded the bank by misstating the amount of customers the startup had and was convicted in March.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 14, 2025
Scrutinize my propositions closely, and see if I am guilty of misstating theirs.
From Life: Its True Genesis by R. W. Wright
