misstate
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Rumanes’ lawsuit describes a “culture of deception” at Live Nation, saying its “basic business model was to misstate and exaggerate financial figures in efforts to solicit and secure business.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 23, 2026
"He's pretty young, I will say. He's 17," the former president said, appearing to misstate his age.
From BBC ● May 10, 2024
“If I misstate that two plus two equals five, you can correct me. But you shouldn’t convict me. I hope she can return home safely.”
From New York Times ● Dec. 23, 2021
They have also complained that the chief judge of the state’s high court appeared to misstate key facts of the case when he discussed the court ruling that overturned Cosby’s conviction in a television interview.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 29, 2021
Don Christopher can have no motive to misstate, even were he capable of the meanness.
From Mercedes of Castile The Voyage to Cathay by J. Fenimore Cooper
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 8 this weekend about New York’s teen punk bands in the 1970s misstates the name Arthur Brennan adopted when he ran away to New York City to join a band.
From New York Times ● Aug. 6, 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
Correction, July 7, 2026: This article originally misstated that Kleban founded the Maine Brewing Company.
From Slate ● Jul. 7, 2026
“EBR Systems Clears Stock Overhang With Capital Raise — Market Talk,” at 0035 GMT, misstated the amount as 0.38 Australian cents a share.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 5, 2026
District Judge George Wu, misstated the law required to prove guilt, saying if Boylan “engaged in misconduct and/or acted with gross negligence,” he could be found guilty of the charge.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 23, 2026
Indeed, the phrenological school have positively misconceived and misstated the principles of cerebral development.
From Buchanan's Journal of Man, June 1887 Volume 1, Number 5 by Joseph R. (Joseph Rodes) Buchanan
“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
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
If you think of immigrants as labor only, you are misstating the point.
From Barron's ● Oct. 9, 2025
No; but as the next sentence states, "because they are convicted of misstating facts," under the influence of this erroneous medical theory.
From Phases of Faith Passages from the History of My Creed by Francis William Newman
