misstate

Biden writes that his experience over five decades in politics “outweighed the obvious weaknesses of my age—my thinner voice, my greater tendency to misstate places and names, my halting gait.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 14, 2026

"He's pretty young, I will say. He's 17," the former president said, appearing to misstate his age.

From BBC ● May 10, 2024

“When you misstate or frame statistics in a manner that support your view ...” Moore paused, then concluded his thought.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 18, 2023

“He would sometimes exaggerate, sometimes misstate facts,” Russell said.

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 19, 2022

The gravest of them is, to argue sophistically, to suppress facts or arguments, to misstate the elements of the case, or misrepresent the opposite opinion.

From On Liberty by John Stuart Mill

Notably, Colorado’s trial court rejected this line of attack years ago, because it fundamentally misstates what Boulder is trying to do.

From Slate ● Oct. 5, 2026

Mr. Burke misstates the date the Air France plane was hijacked as July 6, 1976.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 20, 2026

But he misstates the timing of the ill-fated U.S. raid and muffs the mission’s actual goal: to seize two of the Somali warlord Mohamed Aidid’s lieutenants, not Aidid himself.

From New York Times ● Jul. 26, 2023

Nikola said Milton's social media post "misstates the facts," adding in a statement to Reuters that the proposal to increase its share base could pass without his support.

From Reuters ● Jun. 16, 2023

A person is guilty of this fault whenever he misstates an opponent's argument, either because he does not understand it or through design, and then refutes this misstatement.

From Practical Argumentation by George K. Pattee

Correction, Aug. 4, 2026: This article originally misstated that Hong is the Madison mayor.

From Slate ● Aug. 4, 2026

A previous version of this report misstated the U.S.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 8, 2026

The coordinated actions came after investigations into Evergrande’s financial statements for 2019 and 2020, which regulators said were materially misstated.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 23, 2026

Correction, April 21, 2026: This piece originally misstated that Maska left NewsNation after the 2024 election was decided.

From Slate ● Apr. 21, 2026

What was far worse, he even mistook and misstated evidence which bore against his theories, and was quite capable of being unfair, not from dishonesty, but from prejudice.

From Problems in Greek history by John Pentland Mahaffy

Rosie is especially charming company, misstating her mother’s most crucial instruction as “trust your insects.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 5, 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

That report was widely criticized for misattribution and for misstating the conclusions of the studies it cited.

From Barron's ● Jan. 17, 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

Clearly, they are then convicted of misstating facts, under the influence of superstitious credulity.

From Phases of Faith Passages from the History of My Creed by Francis William Newman