as in misrepresentation
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as in weaseling
to avoid giving a definite answer or position
the candidate was criticized for fudging on most of the questions during the debate
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as in cheating
to use dishonest methods to achieve a goal
she's been fudging on her taxes for years
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as in misrepresenting
to change so much as to create a wrong impression or alter the meaning of
fudged the facts about his educational background so he could get the position
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Recent Examples of fudging
Daniel Fienberg, HollywoodReporter, 12 Nov. 2025
But the number-fudging didn’t end there.
—Luciana Lopez, CNN Money, 18 Aug. 2025
Louis Peitzman, Vulture, 24 Nov. 2025
Kennedy accused Monarez of fudging the reason she was dismissed.
—Swapna Venugopal Ramaswamy, USA Today, 17 Sep. 2025
This can be done daily, making the sensors timely and not subject to fudging or underreporting.
—Vipin Bharathan, Forbes.com, 31 Aug. 2025
Trump alleged over Truth Social that the District has been fudging statistics to create the appearance that crime was on the decline.
—Jonathan Easley, The Hill, 18 Aug. 2025
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The primary visual trickery comes in the form of slowed or accelerated film stock, rather than obvious digital fudging.
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Meanwhile, Charlotte’s husband is debriefing with Shaw, while obviously fudging the details of Pauly’s death.
—Recent Examples of Synonyms for fudging
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Advertisement Cases of successful denaturalization mostly come down to if the misrepresentation was wilful, and such misrepresentation led to the person in question gaining their citizenship, or if the citizenship was procured illegally.—
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Issues related to your work and your health are subject to confusion and misrepresentation.—
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Contessa’s Corner Sports leagues, state gambling regulators and tribal leaders have all raised concerns that prediction market trades on sports don’t have the same level of guardrails as sportsbooks to protect against cheating by athletes, referees, coaches and other insiders.—
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The predictions were that unleashing AI to the world at large would lead to an exponential rise in cheating at school and that student essays would cease to be original.—
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In response, some on the right charged that the Times and its allies in academia were negatively misrepresenting American history.—
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In November 2023, New Jersey Attorney General Matthew Platkin began investigating First Choice Women’s Resource Center to see whether the nonprofit had violated state consumer fraud laws by misrepresenting its services to clients, donors and the public.—
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This approach can also be useful for long-term hedging or wealth preservation.—
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Retail investors have been turning up their noses at balanced funds in recent years, opting for a DIY approach in the search for attractive returns and effective hedging, an analysis from JPMorgan found.—
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Today, tariffs are distorting international trade, conflict is raging with Russia’s war on Ukraine, there have been flare-ups between Israel and Iran and the US is seizing oil tankers off the coast of Venezuela.—
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Economists cautioned that recent data should be interpreted carefully, as a 43-day federal government shutdown disrupted the collection of household data, potentially distorting figures on employment.—
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Hazmat teams are monitoring the air quality in Roselle Park, New Jersey, on Friday after a massive fire at a plastic fabrication warehouse sent chemicals into the air.—
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My hope is that political discourse in 2026 focuses on solutions, not accusations and fabrications.—
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“Fudging.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/fudging. Accessed 12 Jan. 2026.
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