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verb

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Recent Examples of misreport
Verb
The other experiments used a tax evasion game that incentivized participants to misreport their earnings to get a bigger payout. Rachel Nuwer, Scientific American, 28 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for misreport
Noun
  • The program aims to address underrepresentation and misrepresentation of health conditions in media by supporting creators who weave patient and treatment narratives into everyday storytelling.
    Matt Grobar, Deadline, 5 Nov. 2025
  • The 'Christian genocide' narrative is a misrepresentation of our complex security reality, which affects citizens of all faiths.
    Jordan King, MSNBC Newsweek, 4 Nov. 2025
Verb
  • Over the summer, officials in Turkey — where the lawsuit says some of the allegedly fraudulent Drake streams originated — started investigating Spotify over several allegations, including bribes for playlist placement and bot streams distorting domestic charts.
    Nancy Dillon, Rolling Stone, 3 Nov. 2025
  • Meanwhile, the right shoe starts with a black pigskin suede base and mixes in blurred and distorted details to represent the pixelated side.
    Riley Jones, Footwear News, 31 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • 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
Verb
  • But the detectives thought there was evidence to support a charge for obstructing an officer—a Class A misdemeanor punishable by up to nine months in jail—because Ryan had planted physical evidence meant to mislead them.
    Jamie Thompson, The Atlantic, 6 Nov. 2025
  • In one exchange, Jimenez-Guzel allegedly proposed coming up with a fake plot to mislead authorities.
    Michael Ruiz, FOXNews.com, 6 Nov. 2025
Noun
  • The state’s brief urged the court to permit inspection only of ballot images and prohibit scanning or recanvassing the original ballots, claiming such access would undermine ballot integrity and spread misinformation.
    Kaelan Deese, The Washington Examiner, 4 Nov. 2025
  • Cofounder Jimmy Wales explains how introducing a simple purpose, insisting on certain rules of engagement, and other strategies helped the organization to build trust with contributors and users — and maintain it even in a world bombarded by misinformation.
    Harvard Business Review, Harvard Business Review, 4 Nov. 2025
Verb
  • Bode’s comment was strictly in reference to the character of the Wizard of Oz, who uses propaganda to manipulate and deceive his subjects in Wicked.
    Hannah Dailey, Billboard, 7 Nov. 2025
  • As Venus enters Scorpio, your love life appears quiet, but appearances can be deceiving!
    USA TODAY, USA Today, 6 Nov. 2025
Noun
  • Powell knows the lie will stick and immediately vows violent retribution.
    Damon Wise, Deadline, 11 Nov. 2025
  • We’re fed so many lies and people are talking about things that don’t hold much weight.
    Angel Diaz, Billboard, 11 Nov. 2025
Verb
  • The grand jury also accused Childers of arresting a person without a warrant and probable cause, and falsifying an incident report regarding his use of force on a person in a cell.
    Kacen Bayless, Kansas City Star, 5 Nov. 2025
  • This gives the false impression that scientific progress comes only in paradigm-shifting insights that overturn previous thinking, and that all new hypotheses are equally probable until falsified.
    Zack Savitsky, Quanta Magazine, 29 Oct. 2025

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“Misreport.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/misreport. Accessed 16 Nov. 2025.

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