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
Benioff has ranted that large language models, which underpin generative AI, steal business data and “lie” when they misstate facts, implicitly underscoring the need for an intermediary.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 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
The accounts are positive; and I would not lightly place my unsupported testimony to the fact against a host of authors who can be suspected of no motive to misstate.
From The Dog by Dinks
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
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
An article on Page 4 this weekend about the physical and emotional risks theater performers face misstates the name of an organization helping to shape performances of physical contact onstage.
From New York Times ● Aug. 6, 2022
He misstates it thus: "To such laws of the church as have warrant in holy scripture, our law giveth credence," and cites Prisot, mistranslating "ancien scripture" into holy scripture.
From The History Of The Last Trial By Jury For Atheism In England A Fragment of Autobiography Submitted for the Perusal of Her Majesty's Attorney-General and the British Clergy by Holyoake, George Jacob
A previous version of this report misstated the U.S.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 8, 2026
The coordinated actions came after investigations into Evergrande’s financial statements for 2019 and 2020, which regulators said were materially misstated.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 23, 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
No man's opinions have been more constantly misstated, none more generally miscomprehended, than Mr. Beecher's.
From The Continental Monthly, Vol. 4, No. 5, November, 1863 by Various
An AI double with a supervisory role could create legal headaches by misstating employment rules, for instance.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 21, 2026
“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
That is a matter which gives me great satisfaction, and I believe the House will agree with me that I am not misstating the case.
From Speeches on Questions of Public Policy, Volume 1 by Bright, John
