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Recent Examples of misreport
Rachel Nuwer, Scientific American, 28 Sep. 2025
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
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Twenty years or so ago there were many claims by buyers about a misrepresentation of square footage by the seller or by the Realtors.—
Christopher A. Combs,
AZCentral.com,
27 Jan. 2026
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Possible fraud and misrepresentation were words used to describe some the expenditures.—
Kevin Rennie,
Hartford Courant,
24 Jan. 2026
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Likewise, Guy Wolf, global head of market analytics at global financial services platform Marex, signaled that the price action in parts of the precious-metals complex has become increasingly distorted.—
Lee Ying Shan,
CNBC,
29 Jan. 2026
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For years, social networks have been plagued by bot accounts which typically mimic human engagement to do things like pump cryptocurrency prices or distort public perception through amplifying hate speech.—
Anna Tong,
Forbes.com,
28 Jan. 2026
Noun
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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
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In response, the communications director for Mayor Brandon Scott has accused the inspector general's office of misleading the public.—
Mike Hellgren,
CBS News,
28 Jan. 2026
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For one, adversarial attacks designed to mislead AI models can be used by malicious actors to misclassify data.—
Connie Etemadi,
Miami Herald,
28 Jan. 2026
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Demonstrators have taken to the streets in response to the shootings, accusing federal authorities of excessive force, while law enforcement officials warn that misinformation and inflammatory rhetoric have fueled anger and confrontations.—
Stepheny Price , Ashley Papa,
FOXNews.com,
27 Jan. 2026
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Almost immediately after oversight of TikTok’s US operations changed, misinformation started to spread about changes to the app’s new terms of service, including those that applied to location sharing and data collection, Fiesler said.—
Scottie Andrew,
CNN Money,
27 Jan. 2026
Verb
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Although appearances can be deceiving.—
Frank Scheck,
HollywoodReporter,
26 Jan. 2026
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Ah, but appearances can be deceiving.—
Jim Harrington,
Mercury News,
26 Jan. 2026
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The content of the speech was a litany of lies, fantasy and exaggerated claims.—
Chicago Tribune,
Chicago Tribune,
26 Jan. 2026
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But that confidence in ourselves and our capacity was always a lie.—
Adam Frank,
Forbes.com,
24 Jan. 2026
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The court also convicted Han of falsifying the martial law proclamation and destroying it and lying under oath.—
CNN Money,
CNN Money,
22 Jan. 2026
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The researchers now aim to refine the mathematical framework and identify clearer observational signatures that could confirm—or falsify—the picture.—
Rupendra Brahambhatt,
Interesting Engineering,
17 Jan. 2026
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“Misreport.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/misreport. Accessed 31 Jan. 2026.
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