as in misrepresentation
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Recent Examples of misstatement
Due to misstatement by CoreWeave’s CEO, a prior version of this story had an incorrect figure for the number of data centers.
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Jordan Novet, CNBC, 10 Nov. 2025
One study — admittedly small and enabled by the hack of affair-arranging app Ashley Madison in 2015 — found that companies whose CEOs or CFOs were paying users of the site were twice as likely to have had a financial misstatement or involvement in a securities class action.
—Liz Hoffman, semafor.com, 2 Sep. 2025
So, this mass misstatement is no help to those erstwhile interstellar explorers.
—Don Lincoln, Big Think, 29 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for misstatement
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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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In October 2023, Jemma DeCristo tweeted on social media there’s easy access to Zionist journalists who spread propaganda and misinformation.—
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Macron denied that Vinatier worked for the French state and described his arrest as part of a misinformation campaign by Moscow.—
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Hayer was also indicted on the charge of falsification of an official indictment.—
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That falsification led to lower import duties.—
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Whenever the president floated some bizarre policy idea, issued a new threat, or told a brazen lie about the state of the economy, Hassett would be one of the first people on cable news justifying it.—
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Our entire relationship was built on a lie.—
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Speaking of which, the concept of royalty among members of PFV is no exaggeration, though some of the blue blood flowing through members’ veins is merely aristocratic.—
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The deliberate exaggeration of both Lee’s performance and Park’s direction is what draws us into a suspension of moral disbelief, a sense of complicity with Man-su’s outrageous scheme.—
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That's when the voice distortion comes into play — but due to a history of viewers trying to cheat the system, The Masked Singer team does even more to deceive the audience.—
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However, practical deployment has been prevented by sensitivity to ambient light, waveform distortion in LEDs, according to a press release.—
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“Misstatement.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/misstatement. Accessed 13 Jan. 2026.
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