misstate

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

From BBC ● May 10, 2024

But many legal scholars, along with university lawyers and administrators, believe at least some of those free-speech assertions muddle, misstate, test or even flout the amendment, which is meant to guard against state suppression.

From New York Times ● May 1, 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

The accounts are positive; and I would not lightly place my unsupported testimony to the fact against a host of authors who can be suspected of no motive to misstate.

From The Dog by Dinks

“What we object to is a review that misstates the plan’s contents and reaches beyond the issues the Education Code assigns to the county, all while threatening escalation.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 11, 2026

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

For example, in a meeting when a person misstates something she has said, she interjects and clarifies what she meant.

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 10, 2023

I had it from Mrs. Gybbon-Smythe who never misstates anything.

From The Way of an Eagle by Ethel M. (Ethel May) Dell

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

District 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 ● Apr. 23, 2026

It was an algebraic quantity misstated; and, on looking down, I remarked that the mistake was repeated over and over, through a long series of figures.

From Sir Jasper Carew His Life and Experience by Charles James Lever

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

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

From Barron's ● Feb. 10, 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

Surely I am not misstating its position when I say that forcible suppression was the creed of this Commission.

From A Preface to Politics by Walter Lippmann