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When the oil is shimmering, add the pork chops and cook until well browned, 2 to 4 minutes per side.—
Kate Williams,
AJC.com,
30 Mar. 2026 -
British live-fire cook Genevieve Taylor didn’t start out romanticizing cooking over an open flame, with visions of industry cred or Michelin stars dancing in her head.—
Brock Keeling,
Oc Register,
30 Mar. 2026
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Under the settlement, Match and OkCupid must stop misrepresenting their data practices and privacy controls, but no financial penalties were imposed.—
Jeremy Kahn,
Fortune,
31 Mar. 2026
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Following the revelation that Immigration and Customs Enforcement misrepresented its authority to arrest people in immigration court, Congressman Dan Goldman Friday demanded ICE and the Department of Homeland Security provide a full accounting of everyone swept up by the aggressive practice.—
Molly Crane-Newman,
New York Daily News,
27 Mar. 2026
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Trump not only has misstated intelligence about Iran’s military potential.—
Shane Harris,
The Atlantic,
5 Apr. 2026
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This story has been updated to remove a sentence about the Institute of Museum and Library Services’ current budget, which misstated its value and size relative to recent years.—
ProPublica,
ProPublica,
24 Mar. 2026
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An inspection of the commercial vehicle's records showed that the electronic logging records were falsified, police said.—
Paula Wethington,
CBS News,
30 Mar. 2026
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Sophia’s grandmother later sued Alameda County in April 2023, claiming the agency failed time and again to protect the child, breaking more than a dozen state child welfare regulations and later falsifying records to cover their tracks.—
Jakob Rodgers,
Mercury News,
26 Mar. 2026
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However, today, the bigger risk is not misspeaking.—
Cheryl Robinson,
Forbes.com,
12 Feb. 2026
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The health secretary also appeared to misspeak at the meeting, saying two people had died of the disease.—
DEVI SHASTRI AND AMANDA SEITZ THE ASSOCIATED PRESS,
arkansasonline.com,
27 Feb. 2025
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Justice Department lawyers argued that Boasberg set too high a standard for prosecutors to meet at the early stages of an investigation and misinterpreted the timeline of the probe.—
Andrew Goudsward,
USA Today,
3 Apr. 2026
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Despite that promise, reports indicate the tool often misinterprets requests.—
Thomas Westerholm,
MSNBC Newsweek,
31 Mar. 2026
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Objects were frequently distorted or missing key components.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
1 Apr. 2026
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Their shapes often distort as one galaxy exerts tidal forces on the other.—
Big Think,
Big Think,
30 Mar. 2026
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Gray ships were easily seen in profile against the sky and horizon by U-boat periscopes—was there a better color to paint them to help camouflage them from attack?—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
2 Apr. 2026
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Gray ships were easily seen in profile against the sky and horizon by U-boat periscopes — was there a better color to paint them to help camouflage them from attack?—
Kory Stamper,
Big Think,
31 Mar. 2026
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“Misdescribe.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/misdescribe. Accessed 7 Apr. 2026.
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