misrepresent
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Meta is "confident in our record of protecting teens online and will continue to defend ourselves against claims that misrepresent the facts," Meta told AFP in a statement Thursday.
From Barron's ● Aug. 10, 2026
“We remain confident in our record of protecting teens online and will continue to defend ourselves against claims that misrepresent the facts.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 7, 2026
Par for the course, maybe, but the episode was so grossly stupid, it gave birth to a resolution by scientists to stop feeding the media worst-case scenarios to misrepresent.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 29, 2026
But there are things you can do as an attorney if you misrepresent the record.
From Slate ● Oct. 9, 2025
Both versions misrepresent what, in all likelihood, really happened.
From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis
In this case, I can’t see how ironing out a few wrinkles and covering a rumpled duvet with a digital bedspread materially misrepresents your home.
From MarketWatch ● Apr. 3, 2026
Meta told the BBC the research fails to understand how its content settings for teens work and said it misrepresents them.
From BBC ● Sep. 25, 2025
The problem, of course, is that he misrepresents reality to do so.
From Slate ● Sep. 8, 2025
The company, he said, misrepresents how safe the platform is to both its users and shareholders.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 15, 2025
“Freddie never lies. He misrepresents, but he never lies.”
From "Song of Solomon" by Toni Morrison
Hegseth has said that some of the media reports have been "completely misrepresented".
From BBC ● Aug. 14, 2026
Hegseth, however, told journalists that conditions aboard the carrier have been "completely misrepresented."
From Barron's ● Aug. 13, 2026
Whatnot said it doesn’t allow products or prices to be misrepresented, and will refund buyers and ban sellers for breaking those rules, according to the company spokeswoman.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 5, 2026
The prime minister argues that was misrepresented by smugglers to promise an easy path to Europe.
From BBC ● Aug. 2, 2026
And that kind of bugged me, that I was being misrepresented in that way.”
From "The 57 Bus" by Dashka Slater
But environmental groups have accused his companies of misrepresenting their assets to avoid paying environmental penalties.
From Salon ● Jun. 10, 2026
The union contends UC is misrepresenting who would receive the raises and by how much, arguing the examples are not representative of a membership with an average salary of $62,000.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 13, 2026
Multiple short sellers accused the company of misrepresenting its products and issuing false press releases.
From Barron's ● Mar. 2, 2026
When she came to the chief themes, she spoke of “false identity”—people misrepresenting who they really were.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 9, 2026
Later editions of her Surinam book were needlessly reorganized according to different classification systems, garbling and misrepresenting her findings.
From "The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science" by Joyce Sidman
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