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as in to distort
to change so much as to create a wrong impression or alter the meaning of
this summary seriously misrepresents the general tone and substance of the speech
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as in to conceal
to give a misleading impression of
deliberately misrepresented the facts of the case
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Recent Examples of misrepresent
The lawsuit also accuses the company of misrepresenting the type of content available on its platform.
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Skyler Shepard,
Sun Sentinel,
15 June 2026
They may have been misrepresented.
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Teresa Mull,
FOXNews.com,
15 June 2026
But environmental groups have accused his companies of misrepresenting their assets to avoid paying environmental penalties.
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Molly Redden,
ProPublica,
8 June 2026
Bohn, in a recent report, cautioned that focusing solely on relocations overlooks the range of positive and negative forces driving headquarters activity and can misrepresent businesses’ desire and ability to operate headquarters in California and the broader impact on jobs.
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The Los Angeles Times,
Chicago Tribune,
8 June 2026
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Skyler Shepard,
Sun Sentinel,
15 June 2026
They may have been misrepresented.
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Teresa Mull,
FOXNews.com,
15 June 2026
But environmental groups have accused his companies of misrepresenting their assets to avoid paying environmental penalties.
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Molly Redden,
ProPublica,
8 June 2026
Bohn, in a recent report, cautioned that focusing solely on relocations overlooks the range of positive and negative forces driving headquarters activity and can misrepresent businesses’ desire and ability to operate headquarters in California and the broader impact on jobs.
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The Los Angeles Times,
Chicago Tribune,
8 June 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for misrepresent
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This disciplined recovery is vital in areas such as forecasting, where flawed workflows can distort decisions far beyond finance.
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The biggest concern are realistic-looking visuals that subtly distort scientific details while remaining believable enough to pass initial review.
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The defendants and their co-conspirators—which included tax, accounting and financial industry professionals, and law firms—worked to design, implement and defend the tax shelter transactions in ways intended to conceal the true facts and circumstances of the transactions from the IRS.
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One of the defendants, Daniel Sanchez Estrada, was convicted of corruptly concealing a document and conspiracy to conceal documents.
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The irony is a bit hard to ignore — the very environment being modified to protect or maintain beaches was simultaneously obscuring the ecological processes happening just offshore.
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And what’s a novelist but a fence, furnishing imaginary scenes with choice pieces of reality while obscuring their provenance?
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Turns out, a kid brought in with gunshot wounds died in that room the same night, and a final look at the security footage shows a mysterious third man — clearly hiding his face from all cameras under a label-less baseball cap — entering the same room around the same time as Ji.
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Stealth jurors — those who hide their true biases to influence a verdict — could pose a serious problem for prosecutors in either of Mangione's cases, Rahmani said.
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The group also took time to contradict claims from AV makers like Tesla, which often rely on a 2019 NHTSA study finding that 94 percent of car accidents are due to human error in order to suggest that AVs will make roads safer.
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The foreign ministry and the Guards have been noted to have different interests throughout the conflict, sometimes contradicting each other.
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That doesn’t belie the special circumstances that Bernard requires, though.
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Ashwin, 39, comes across as humble in person, but that belies his fame and standing in the sport.
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“Misrepresent.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/misrepresent. Accessed 29 Jun. 2026.
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