misstatement
Example Sentences
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The report expressed concern about audit findings that identified “significant deficiencies in internal control ... that leave the district’s assets susceptible to misstatement, theft, or fraud.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 9, 2026
Prosecutors alleged this technical misstatement was a federal crime punishable by up to 60 years in prison.
From Slate ● May 1, 2026
Her lawyers say any misstatement in her mortgage papers was, at worst, an inadvertent paperwork error.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 21, 2026
The Senate panel investigating the financial misstatement issued a damning report last week accusing Eckstrom of “willful neglect of duty.”
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 23, 2023
The real interest of these things ought not to be denied either by the misstatement that the materials adapted are mere common property, nor by the calumny that Handel was uninventive.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 8 "Haller, Albrecht" to "Harmonium" by Various
