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as in misrepresents
to change so much as to create a wrong impression or alter the meaning of
taking that statement completely out of context essentially falsifies it, whether that's your intention or not
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as in refutes
to prove to be false
telephone records falsified his claim that he wasn't home that night
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This report repeatedly misrepresents our efforts to empower parents and protect teens, misstating how our safety tools work and how millions of parents and teens are using them today.—
Kurt Knutsson,
FOXNews.com,
4 Oct. 2025 -
This statement fundamentally misrepresents how research is done.—
Brendan Harley,
Twin Cities,
11 Sep. 2025
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Like Dunbar’s speakers, Hughes’s dispossessed have no way out, and the poem implicitly refutes optimism regarding the Great Migration and racial progress.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
20 Oct. 2025
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Ex-contractor likens Gaza aid effort to 'The Hunger Games,' former employer refutes claims One meal a day.—
Gram Slattery,
USA Today,
11 Sep. 2025
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This imbalance destabilizes democracy, distorts our economy, and limits human potential.—
Scott Ellis,
Time,
17 Oct. 2025
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It was detected in a process called gravitational lensing, which involves the way its gravity distorts light passing through or near it.—
Eric Lagatta,
USA Today,
13 Oct. 2025
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“Falsifies.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/falsifies. Accessed 28 Oct. 2025.
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