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

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 14, 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Novo Nordisk filed a lawsuit against Eli Lilly, accusing it of using outdated studies to mislead consumers about the comparative weight-loss effectiveness of its GLP-1 drugs Mounjaro and Zepbound against Novo Nordisk’s Ozempic and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

"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

But if that’s the case, why would a grown man feel the need to mislead a bunch of kids about how fast and strong and good at climbing it he is?

From Slate ● Jun. 24, 2026

But Dewey, and some of the other investigators, seemed not to credit his story, and behaved as though it were a tale he’d invented to mislead them.

From "In Cold Blood" by Truman Capote

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

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

Unions say the Freedom Foundation misleads workers by using union colors and logos to make the mail seem as if it is coming from the union itself.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 28, 2025

Is not that man as guilty who fosters false hopes, and misleads the ignorant?

From The Red Cockade by Stanley John Weyman

Those cases generally focus on businesses that misled consumers about important aspects of how their products work or how they charge fees.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 30, 2026

In March, a jury in New Mexico ordered the Facebook and Instagram owner to pay $375 million after finding it had misled the public about the safety of its platforms for children.

From Barron's ● Sep. 25, 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

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

From "Dracula" by Bram Stoker

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

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 25, 2026

The government also said giving students long-term predictions of how much they might ultimately repay risked being "misleading" because of "limited" accuracy.

From BBC ● Sep. 12, 2026

The subtitle “Hunt for Saddam” is a bit misleading: Saddam is found before the end of episode 3, and a viewer might think, “Time for a shawarma.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 10, 2026

The lawsuit accused the tech company of designing and deploying harmful features while misleading the public about them.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 10, 2026

In fact, because divorce is such a wrenching, stressful experience, it probably raises one’s risk of death, and thus the reality is quite contrary to the above misleading correlation.

From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos