mislead
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Enormous efforts were made to mislead the Germans about what was coming.
From Los Angeles Times • May 29, 2026
These instant markups boost the returns of the buyers and mislead their investors.
From MarketWatch • Apr. 27, 2026
Antitrust officials said the way providers in the program are presented on the company’s platform, combined with claims by Booking.com highlighting their quality, might mislead users into booking more expensive accommodation.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 22, 2026
The Ministerial Code states that ministers who knowingly mislead Parliament are expected to resign, while any inadvertent error should be corrected "at the earliest opportunity".
From BBC • Apr. 20, 2026
Occasionally, focussing on a linguistic alteration can mislead us into thinking that something important has happened when it hasn’t, or that something happened at a particular moment when it actually happened earlier.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
Vocabulary lists containing mislead
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