misstating

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An AI double with a supervisory role could create legal headaches by misstating employment rules, for instance.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 21, 2026

“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 administration alleges that Cook engaged in mortgage fraud, misstating certain details on mortgage documents before she joined the Fed.

From Barron's • Jan. 21, 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

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)