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Recent Examples of falsification
Hayer was also indicted on the charge of falsification of an official indictment.
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Tim Fang, CBS News, 16 Dec. 2025
That falsification led to lower import duties.
—Rosemary Feitelberg, Footwear News, 1 Oct. 2025
The first jury, by contrast, deliberated for days before acquitting Amiri of conspiracy, multiple deprivation-of-rights charges and convicting him of the single dog attack and records falsification.
—Nate Gartrell, Mercury News, 19 Sep. 2025
Hoadley was sentenced to three months in prison after a jury convicted him of destruction, alteration or falsification of records, tampering with a witness by harassment, and tampering with documents.
—Alex Brizee, Idaho Statesman, 17 Sep. 2025
With 64% of job applicants admitting to résumé falsification, up from 55% just two years ago, according to StandOut CV, companies are hemorrhaging money on staffing and bad hires while genuine talent slips through traditional screening processes.
—Douglas B. Laney, Forbes.com, 30 Aug. 2025
Hernandez was charged with 19 counts of misconduct including theft of identity, fraud, falsification of Medicaid documents, nursing without a license and abuse of a patient, officials said.
—Paloma Chavez, Sacbee.com, 29 Aug. 2025
As part of its safety crackdown, the federal goverment is moving toward a requirement that medical paperwork be stored electronically to limit falsification.
—Trevor Hughes, USA Today, 22 Aug. 2025
Conspiracy carries a maximum sentence of five years and falsification of records carries a penalty of up to 20 years and a $250,000 fine.
—Josh Wood, The Courier-Journal, 20 Aug. 2025
Tim Fang, CBS News, 16 Dec. 2025
That falsification led to lower import duties.
—Rosemary Feitelberg, Footwear News, 1 Oct. 2025
The first jury, by contrast, deliberated for days before acquitting Amiri of conspiracy, multiple deprivation-of-rights charges and convicting him of the single dog attack and records falsification.
—Nate Gartrell, Mercury News, 19 Sep. 2025
Hoadley was sentenced to three months in prison after a jury convicted him of destruction, alteration or falsification of records, tampering with a witness by harassment, and tampering with documents.
—Alex Brizee, Idaho Statesman, 17 Sep. 2025
With 64% of job applicants admitting to résumé falsification, up from 55% just two years ago, according to StandOut CV, companies are hemorrhaging money on staffing and bad hires while genuine talent slips through traditional screening processes.
—Douglas B. Laney, Forbes.com, 30 Aug. 2025
Hernandez was charged with 19 counts of misconduct including theft of identity, fraud, falsification of Medicaid documents, nursing without a license and abuse of a patient, officials said.
—Paloma Chavez, Sacbee.com, 29 Aug. 2025
As part of its safety crackdown, the federal goverment is moving toward a requirement that medical paperwork be stored electronically to limit falsification.
—Trevor Hughes, USA Today, 22 Aug. 2025
Conspiracy carries a maximum sentence of five years and falsification of records carries a penalty of up to 20 years and a $250,000 fine.
—Josh Wood, The Courier-Journal, 20 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for falsification
Noun
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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.—
Callum Sutherland,
Time,
9 Jan. 2026
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Issues related to your work and your health are subject to confusion and misrepresentation.—
Georgia Nicols,
Denver Post,
8 Jan. 2026
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Due to misstatement by CoreWeave’s CEO, a prior version of this story had an incorrect figure for the number of data centers.—
Jordan Novet,
CNBC,
10 Nov. 2025
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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
Noun
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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.—
Ishani Desai,
Sacbee.com,
8 Jan. 2026
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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.—
Reuters,
NBC news,
8 Jan. 2026
Noun
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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.—
Skyler Caruso,
PEOPLE,
7 Jan. 2026
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However, practical deployment has been prevented by sensitivity to ambient light, waveform distortion in LEDs, according to a press release.—
Prabhat Ranjan Mishra,
Interesting Engineering,
4 Jan. 2026
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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.—
Lisa Rozner,
CBS News,
2 Jan. 2026
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My hope is that political discourse in 2026 focuses on solutions, not accusations and fabrications.—
Chicago Tribune,
Chicago Tribune,
1 Jan. 2026
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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.—
Rogé Karma,
The Atlantic,
7 Jan. 2026
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Our entire relationship was built on a lie.—
Jeanne Phillips,
Mercury News,
7 Jan. 2026
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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.—
Mike DeSimone,
Robb Report,
27 Dec. 2025
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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.—
Justin Chang,
New Yorker,
23 Dec. 2025
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Some contained falsehoods and disinformation.—
David Smiley,
Miami Herald,
7 Nov. 2025
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In an interview before the meeting, Franco said the Department of Children and Families's letter contained multiple falsehoods and that nothing is stopping it from giving the funds to another agency.—
Gina Lee Castro,
jsonline.com,
6 Nov. 2025
Cite this Entry
“Falsification.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/falsification. Accessed 11 Jan. 2026.
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