misstate
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"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
“If I misstate that two plus two equals five, you can correct me. But you shouldn’t convict me. I hope she can return home safely.”
From New York Times ● Dec. 23, 2021
Cathy McMorris Rodgers and Dan Newhouse made a number of assertions about wastewater treatment plants that misstate the role of these facilities in the health of Puget Sound.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 5, 2021
It is true, that wherever the interest of a witness is involved, it has an immediate tendency to make him misstate facts: but so would personal ill-will—so would his sympathies—so would any strong feeling.
From A Voyage to the Moon by Tucker, George
Mr. Burke misstates the date the Air France plane was hijacked as July 6, 1976.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 20, 2026
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
Bauer does not present any compelling argument as to why Thiagarajah’s using a synonym of the court’s own language misstates the court’s findings.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 30, 2022
An article on Page 4 this weekend about the physical and emotional risks theater performers face misstates the name of an organization helping to shape performances of physical contact onstage.
From New York Times ● Aug. 6, 2022
But the writer strangely misstates the case when he says that “all great writers on ethics and politics” agree with Mr. Spencer.
From Moral Principles and Medical Practice The Basis of Medical Jurisprudence by Coppens, Charles
A previous version of this report misstated the U.S.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 8, 2026
Correction: An earlier version misstated Henry Nowak’s age.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 3, 2026
Correction, April 21, 2026: This piece originally misstated that Maska left NewsNation after the 2024 election was decided.
From Slate ● Apr. 21, 2026
Court Judge George Wu, misstated the law required to prove guilt, saying if Boylan “engaged in misconduct and/or acted with gross negligence,” he could be found guilty of the charge.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 3, 2026
But his understanding of the question is in other respects incorrect,—misunderstood, one may hope, rather than misstated lest he should give credit, for what he considered a meritorious action, to Madison.
From James Madison by Gay, Sydney Howard
“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
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
She was arrested two years later on charges she defrauded the bank by misstating the amount of customers the startup had and was convicted in March.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 14, 2025
If you think of immigrants as labor only, you are misstating the point.
From Barron's ● Oct. 9, 2025
It was one who could have no object in misstating the fact—which you have not denied.
From The Quickening by Ashe, E. M.
