as in misrepresentation
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Recent Examples of misreport
Ashley Portillo, CBS News, 23 Mar. 2026
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
Verb
Sometimes, the lender may misreport.
—Ashley Portillo, CBS News, 23 Mar. 2026
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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From misrepresentation about what the food actually is to difficulties with the accessibility of certain ingredients, many Japanese restaurants fail to get established and scale up.—
William Jones,
USA Today,
9 Mar. 2026
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Autonomous technology raises questions about the manufacturer’s liability; now, legal experts must consider whether a technology malfunction or misrepresentation contributed to the accident.—
Sponsored Content,
Denver Post,
4 Mar. 2026
Verb
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In a blog post Wednesday, the exchange said that crypto projects cannot have any revenue-sharing models with market makers, and that market makers also cannot engage with projects to manipulate prices or distort liquidity of the tokens.—
Muyao Shen,
Bloomberg,
25 Mar. 2026
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Others think that their time and resources are better spent elsewhere — or, worse, that a Lean-centric approach will distort the true value of mathematics.—
Leila Sloman,
Quanta Magazine,
25 Mar. 2026
Noun
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That misstatement surely deceived nobody.—
David Frum,
The Atlantic,
25 Feb. 2026
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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
Verb
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The New Mexico court decision requires Meta to pay $375 million for misleading users.—
Lia Russell
March 25,
Sacbee.com,
26 Mar. 2026
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This misled voters about the strength of her campaign, investigators argued.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
26 Mar. 2026
Noun
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The company’s website on the contract negotiations addresses misinformation shared online about the negotiation process and the use of contractors.—
Alexandra Kukulka,
Chicago Tribune,
30 Mar. 2026
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App stores, hosting providers, cloud services and internet infrastructure companies are also enabling the dissemination of this misinformation and propaganda.—
Steven Stalinsky,
MSNBC Newsweek,
30 Mar. 2026
Verb
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The specifications on the Neo can be deceiving.—
Dwight Silverman,
Houston Chronicle,
28 Mar. 2026
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Klipsch Austin Portable Bluetooth Speaker Deal Don't be deceived by the small Klipsch Austin portable speaker.—
George Yang,
PC Magazine,
24 Mar. 2026
Noun
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This is a ridiculous lie and desperate attempt to distract from the pedophile protection party’s unpopular war of choice, increasing gas prices and rapidly dropping polling numbers.—
Billal Rahman,
MSNBC Newsweek,
30 Mar. 2026
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Just as lies were used to justify our attack on Iraq over 20 years ago.—
Chicago Tribune,
Chicago Tribune,
30 Mar. 2026
Verb
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Instead, Garcia, according to the indictment, falsified documents about his arrangements with a Chinese manufacturer of the hand sanitizer.—
Logan Smith,
CBS News,
22 Mar. 2026
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So that talks about bringing the car in on like a container truck for shipping and these dealers and buyers were allegedly falsifying those documents to say the vehicle had been in Montana for X period of months and then bringing it in when in reality the vehicle never was.—
Joel Feder,
The Drive,
19 Mar. 2026
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“Misreport.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/misreport. Accessed 31 Mar. 2026.
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