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
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
One way to shift some of the debt burden onto institutions, Hornsby said, would be to seek "civil penalties for institutions that intentionally misstate student outcomes in order to increase enrollment."
From Salon ● May 8, 2021
“Pardon the suggestion that you misstate the case,” he said, softly.
From The Key to Yesterday by Buck, Charles Neville
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
The workers’ suit, the company argues, misstates “laws, regulations and statutes” governing guest worker programs.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 2, 2022
I assume this as possible because Borrow misstates the age of his boy friend in Lavengro.
From George Borrow and His Circle Wherein May Be Found Many Hitherto Unpublished Letters Of Borrow And His Friends by Shorter, Clement King
Correction An earlier version misstated the ratio of ‘transgender-related diagnoses’ to diabetes cases.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 17, 2026
A previous version of this report misstated the U.S.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 8, 2026
Correction, July 7, 2026: This article originally misstated that Kleban founded the Maine Brewing Company.
From Slate ● Jul. 7, 2026
Correction: An earlier version misstated Henry Nowak’s age.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 3, 2026
The amiable New York Tribune, chuckling over a false rumor that you were denied its further use, has misstated the facts.
From History of Woman Suffrage, Volume II by Stanton, Elizabeth Cady
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
Circulars were distributed throughout town over-night, cleverly misstating conditions.
From Jim Waring of Sonora-Town Tang of Life by Knibbs, Henry Herbert
