MISREPORTED Synonyms: 35 Similar and Opposite Words

misreported

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past tense of misreport

as in misled

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Kohberger, who was sentenced to four consecutive life sentences plus 10 years, claims in a handwritten affidavit that he was coerced into a false confession and misled by his original defense team.

— Chadd Cripe. Produced with AI assistance, Idaho Statesman, 4 Aug. 2026
Fellow creator Shaghana Doyle says fans who were being misled by imposter accounts have shown up at her home.

— Alyssa Goldberg, USA Today, 3 Aug. 2026

Definition of misled

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The Federal Trade Commission sued Hims & Hers yesterday, alleging the direct-to-consumer telehealth company deceived consumers purchasing clinical care and medications through the site.

— Helen Branswell, STAT, 30 July 2026
Mora filed a cross-complaint against Giumarra alleging he was deceived by the company and its representatives into signing a contract that made false claims about the fruit, including that it was patented by Giumarra.

— Robert Rodriguez, Sacbee.com, 24 July 2026

Definition of deceived

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Justices found Yoon violated Cabinet members’ deliberation rights, falsified and destroyed the martial law proclamation, and used security forces to obstruct his arrest before lawmakers swiftly repealed the decree.

— Kim Tong-Hyung, Los Angeles Times, 9 July 2026
Yet under the Third Circuit’s rule, a taxpayer may remain vulnerable long after records have disappeared and witnesses are unavailable, if a preparer intentionally falsified a return.

— Virginia La Torre Jeker, Forbes.com, 30 June 2026

Definition of falsified

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The narrator spends years assembling the truth of this death, concealed by his family, and discovers that Calcutta and Dhaka experienced those riots as mirror images of each other.

— Encyclopedia Britannica, Encyclopedia Britannica, 29 July 2026
The sign concealed a smaller building that was a holdout on the corner of West 34th Street and Broadway when Macy's was built in the early 1900s.

— ABC News, ABC News, 29 July 2026

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