mislead

"There's a long history of strategies to mislead anybody who might be trying to harm the president."

From BBC ● Aug. 11, 2026

Novo Nordisk filed a lawsuit against Eli Lilly, accusing it of using outdated studies to mislead consumers about the comparative weight-loss effectiveness of its GLP-1 drugs Mounjaro and Zepbound against Novo Nordisk’s Ozempic and Wegovy.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 21, 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

She hadn't intended to mislead, she hadn't acted out of malice.

From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan

Aronowitz has called the increased litigation a “con game” that misleads judges, argued that such cases should go before a specialized court and labeled the whole enterprise a “scam.”

From Salon ● Jul. 9, 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

The Council of Science Editors’ recommendations on publication ethics say ghost authorship is “ethically unacceptable” because it misleads readers about potential conflicts of interest.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 13, 2026

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

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 2, 2025

In contemplating the captivating figure, and the delicate mind of this charming girl, I felt that imagination, which misleads so many youthful hearts, had preserved mine.

From Coelebs In Search of a Wife by Hannah More

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

In Botswana -- where the government said in July an "alarming" number of men were being misled into joining the war -- another mother has not heard from her 20-year-old son for nearly a year.

From Barron's ● Aug. 19, 2026

This week a trial kicks off in federal court, where four states—California, Colorado, Kentucky and New Jersey—argue that Meta misled the public on the harms of social media to young minds.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 16, 2026

I saw at once that I was on the right track; phonetic spelling had again misled me.

From "Dracula" by Bram Stoker

And Meta already owes New Mexico nearly $1 billion for misleading users about its platforms’ safety.

From Slate ● Aug. 26, 2026

The company has previously got into hot water with the UK advertising watchdog, which has banned some of its adverts for making "misleading" claims.

From BBC ● Aug. 20, 2026

For a second day, Meta is fending off accusations by a coalition of US states that it deliberately designed its products to hook children and gather their data while misleading the public.

From Barron's ● Aug. 19, 2026

Based on the whistleblower’s account, authorities began to explore whether Guggenheim Investments, partly owned by TWG, might have used misleading contracts to inflate its revenue and secure a better deal.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 18, 2026

The relatives in London thought he looked “uncommonly well and stout,” though that was often misleading.

From "Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith" by Deborah Heiligman