mislead
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In a statement issued on Monday afternoon, Manivannan said they were "horrified" that the comments had been "selectively edited in order to mislead people and misrepresent me".
From BBC ● Aug. 10, 2026
“I mean, it rents fine—I don’t want to mislead you. But it certainly could have been better if we had a bigger great room.”
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 6, 2026
"Without this, we mislead decision makers and potentially lose public trust in our ability to tackle climate change."
From Science Daily ● Jun. 18, 2026
Walker opened a foundation bank account and transferred funds to his personal accounts, Bonta said, attempting to conceal those transfers with fake reimbursement records and forging receipts to mislead auditors.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 17, 2026
In fact, quotation marks used like that can mislead the reader.
From "Woe Is I" by Patricia T. O'Conner
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Ofcom's proposed measures are targeting content which advertises products or services in a way that misleads or tricks viewers.
From BBC ● Jul. 10, 2026
A California judge ruled that the infamous Kars4Kids jingle misleads donors.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 6, 2026
One major reason is fraud, where one party intentionally misleads the other before the agreement is signed, causing the other party to enter the contract based on false information.
From MarketWatch ● May 20, 2026
Unions say the Freedom Foundation misleads workers by using union colors and logos to make the mail seem as if it is coming from the union itself.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 28, 2025
Salvator turned out to be a cur, his mission despicable, and yet no woman born can ever be without some little tenderness for one whose love misleads him.
From A Man in the Open by Roger Pocock
We first revealed the emerging scandal in March where a small group of parents appeared to have been misled about donors.
From BBC ● Aug. 18, 2026
Pirro’s team blamed the Interior Department for the flub, saying it had misled prosecutors about the pool.
From Slate ● Aug. 4, 2026
It is possible that Hearn could request an investigation into whether the grand jury was misled.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 3, 2026
"Recent reports indicate that the number of Batswana being misled into such arrangements is rising at an alarming rate," the international relations ministry said.
From Barron's ● Jul. 18, 2026
Hooke’s imagery is misleading—and he was misled by it.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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However, she says Alpturk was responsible for signing off procedures at the clinic and she denies ever misleading patients.
From BBC ● Aug. 18, 2026
But this is also misleading because the study’s data covered completed pregnancies.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 13, 2026
In March, the jury found Meta violated the state's Unfair Practices Act by misleading consumers about the safety of its products for children.
From Barron's ● Aug. 7, 2026
So when you’re telling me you don’t know any details about the second season of “Pluribus,” are you misleading me?
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 6, 2026
The term is misleading, since these mounds vary greatly in shape and purpose as well as in date, ranging from about 2000 B.C. to the time of the Europeans’ arrival.
From "History of Art, Volume 1" by H.W. Janson
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