misstating

Example Sentences

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“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

The efforts have faltered in court, with a grand jury earlier this month declining to indict James for allegedly misstating the intended use of a property in Norfolk, Va.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 22, 2025

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

If you think of immigrants as labor only, you are misstating the point.

From Barron's • Oct. 9, 2025

It is noteworthy that his opponents never charged him with misstating their case in order to make an apparently effective answer to it.

From Abraham Lincoln, Volume I by Morse, John T. (John Torrey)