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mislead

[mis-leed] / mɪsˈlid /


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This isn’t an intention to mislead, but rather reflective of the U.S. market’s liquidity and American companies’ profitability.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 3, 2026

The change could mislead consumer, marketing and aviation experts said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 14, 2026

"If fabricated studies make their way into the evidence base, they can mislead real scientists and ultimately slow progress for patients. That's why it's vital we get ahead of this problem."

From Science Daily ● Jul. 16, 2026

An external review found multiple failings, with Ockenden saying the case was "compounded by a systemic cover-up and investigations designed to mislead".

From BBC ● Jul. 4, 2026

“You didn’t mislead me. I’ve only been saving stories for home. I’ll tell them, ‘The prince said thus-and-so to me, and I said thus-and-so back to him.

From "Ella Enchanted" by Gail Carson Levine

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

“Attempting to classify foods as unhealthy simply because they are processed, or demonizing food by ignoring its full nutrient content, misleads consumers,” Gallo said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 2, 2025

It also misleads military patients by referring them to me even after Tricare has acknowledged that I’m unable to take more of them.

From Salon ● Aug. 22, 2024

The President of the Club invited a Catholic priest, an Episcopalian and a Presbyterian minister, a Unitarian and, unless my memory misleads me, an agnostic.

From Jonathan and His Continent Rambles Through American Society by Jack Allyn

Agency aims to use its consumer-protection powers to examine whether AI labs have misled the public about dangers from the technology.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026

Callaghan “had no idea it had anything to do with crypto, he was completely misled by Hunter Biden,” Mitchell Jackson, a representative for Callaghan and other popular social-media figures, told MarketWatch.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 9, 2026

In a statement to the BBC, Amazon "strongly disagrees" with the premise that it misled advertisers and called the suit "misguided."

From BBC ● Aug. 31, 2026

The settlement would resolve a multistate lawsuit that alleged Meta designed and deployed addictive features that harmed young people and misled the public about the potential dangers.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 28, 2026

Muhammad and Mom are easily lured, misled, and taken for a ride.

From "Saints and Misfits" by S.K. Ali

We all know that social-media personas can be misleading.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 25, 2026

A report in 2021 by the coroner that carried out the Flint Cahan inquest warned that "a culture of impunity existed" at the Trust where "inaccurate and misleading recording of clinical records was tolerated."

From BBC ● Sep. 14, 2026

Prosecutors had been considering a misdemeanor charge against Abbott under the federal Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act and a separate count for allegedly misleading the government, the Journal reported.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 14, 2026

Several leading track and field athletes competing at the Ultimate Championship in Budapest last weekend expressed their consternation at Sweeney's commercial, saying it was a misleading representation of how women in sport looked.

From Barron's ● Sep. 14, 2026

The usual description of the duel’s location—the plains of Weehawken—is misleading.

From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis




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