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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
  • That’s textbook misrepresentation.
    Christopher Elliott, Mercury News, 6 Feb. 2026
  • The fundamental flaw in the TrumpRx model lies in a misunderstanding — or perhaps a willful misrepresentation — of how most Americans pay for their prescription medications.
    Ryan N. Hansen, STAT, 5 Feb. 2026
Verb
  • This concentration distorts markets, raises costs for families, threatens national security, and removes decisions from Texans’ hands.
    Eleanor Dearman, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 14 Feb. 2026
  • Since his return to office in 2025, this firehose of lies has only accelerated, distorting everything from economic data to constitutional law.
    Letters to the Editor, The Orlando Sentinel, 11 Feb. 2026
Noun
  • 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
  • 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
Verb
  • But the label change could mislead consumers, said Sarah Sorscher, director of regulatory affairs for the Center for Science in the Public Interest, an advocacy group.
    Jonel Aleccia, Chicago Tribune, 5 Feb. 2026
  • Russia’s Defense and Foreign Ministries have not responded to CNN’s request for comment on allegations that some recruits were misled or coerced.
    Larry Madowo, CNN Money, 4 Feb. 2026
Noun
  • Emmanuel Macron equated territorial sovereignty with the rights of the French to police their own misinformation and democracy.
    Nick Paton Walsh, CNN Money, 15 Feb. 2026
  • The current parameters of pop spectatorship and the content mill that drives it online — with blind items, hate trains, and misinformation — have made it so that no artist can really control the conversation around them.
    Larisha Paul, Rolling Stone, 15 Feb. 2026
Verb
  • Neglecting The Kitchen Sink Your sink may look spick-and-span, but looks can be deceiving.
    Melissa Locker, Southern Living, 16 Feb. 2026
  • But a superficial comparison between Delta, United, and American across certain headline metrics can be deceiving.
    Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, Fortune, 16 Feb. 2026
Noun
  • Chickering adds that under its new owners, TikTok has more control over what shows up on American feeds, but this control, according to Chickering, is where TikTok’s opportunity - and risk - lies.
    Matthew Chin, CNBC, 16 Feb. 2026
  • Malliotakis has a history of spreading misleading information and incendiary lies tying immigrants to crimes, despite data showing immigrants commit crimes at far lower rates than others.
    Voice of the People, New York Daily News, 16 Feb. 2026
Verb
  • Ask whether the hypothesis, at least in principle, can be falsified.
    Big Think, Big Think, 10 Feb. 2026
  • Thomas and Noel were later charged with falsifying records certifying the inmate counts had been completed.
    Daniel Ruetenik, CBS News, 5 Feb. 2026

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“Misreport.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/misreport. Accessed 20 Feb. 2026.

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