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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

You cannot think my wife or I would misstate what happened, can you?

From The Come Back by Wells, Carolyn

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 ● Nov. 23, 2022

An article on Page 8 this weekend about New York’s teen punk bands in the 1970s misstates the name Arthur Brennan adopted when he ran away to New York City to join a band.

From New York Times ● Aug. 6, 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From George Borrow and His Circle Wherein May Be Found Many Hitherto Unpublished Letters Of Borrow And His Friends by Shorter, Clement King

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

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 8, 2026

“EBR Systems Clears Stock Overhang With Capital Raise — Market Talk,” at 0035 GMT, misstated the amount as 0.38 Australian cents a share.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 5, 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 22, 2026: This piece originally misstated that citrus canker is a viral infection.

From Slate ● Apr. 20, 2026

For these he proposes to substitute "a correct if short memoir:" but, kindly and appreciative as may be Mr. Ingram's performance, there occur not a few passages in it equally "mistaken and misstated."

From The Poetical Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Vol. I by Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

“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

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

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 Lippmann, Walter