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Recent Examples of misrepresentation
The novel, published to immediate controversy in India—an obscenity suit was filed over its portrayal of an intercaste romance—offended her Syrian Christian kin, who grumbled about misrepresentation.
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Rebecca Mead, New Yorker, 3 Sep. 2025
As with the terms hipster or democracy, though, the true definition of midcentury modern has steadily eroded from overuse and blatant misrepresentation on Facebook Marketplace.
—Will Speros, Architectural Digest, 3 Sep. 2025
The suit seeks up to $10,000 in civil penalties for each potential violation of state law that prohibits deceptive practices, unfair acts or misrepresentation and that date back to 2019.
—Jose R. Gonzalez, AZCentral.com, 28 Aug. 2025
Still, raising your kids as part of a minority, especially one that faces misrepresentation, can feel isolating.
—Simran Jeet Singh, Big Think, 20 Aug. 2025
Storytelling has the power to shape perceptions, and misrepresentation or oversimplification can perpetuate harmful stereotypes.
—Colin Dougan, Rolling Stone, 15 Aug. 2025
Commercial, alleging fraud, negligent misrepresentation and promissory estoppel.
—Daniel Libit, Sportico.com, 11 Aug. 2025
The Pentagon has even suggested legal ramifications for misrepresentation, citing the False Claims Act for egregious cases.
—Emil Sayegh, Forbes.com, 5 Aug. 2025
Rebecca Mead, New Yorker, 3 Sep. 2025
As with the terms hipster or democracy, though, the true definition of midcentury modern has steadily eroded from overuse and blatant misrepresentation on Facebook Marketplace.
—Will Speros, Architectural Digest, 3 Sep. 2025
The suit seeks up to $10,000 in civil penalties for each potential violation of state law that prohibits deceptive practices, unfair acts or misrepresentation and that date back to 2019.
—Jose R. Gonzalez, AZCentral.com, 28 Aug. 2025
Still, raising your kids as part of a minority, especially one that faces misrepresentation, can feel isolating.
—Simran Jeet Singh, Big Think, 20 Aug. 2025
Storytelling has the power to shape perceptions, and misrepresentation or oversimplification can perpetuate harmful stereotypes.
—Colin Dougan, Rolling Stone, 15 Aug. 2025
Commercial, alleging fraud, negligent misrepresentation and promissory estoppel.
—Daniel Libit, Sportico.com, 11 Aug. 2025
The Pentagon has even suggested legal ramifications for misrepresentation, citing the False Claims Act for egregious cases.
—Emil Sayegh, Forbes.com, 5 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for misrepresentation
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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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So, this mass misstatement is no help to those erstwhile interstellar explorers.—
Don Lincoln,
Big Think,
29 Aug. 2025
Noun
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The chatbot can spew misinformation and offer risky advice.—
Anna Halkidis,
Parents,
3 Sep. 2025
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Share credible information from trusted sources with family and friends to counter misinformation on vaccines.—
Bernadette Boden Albala,
Forbes.com,
3 Sep. 2025
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With 64% of job applicants admitting to résumé falsification, up from 55% just two years ago, according to StandOut CV, companies are hemorrhaging money on staffing and bad hires while genuine talent slips through traditional screening processes.—
Douglas B. Laney,
Forbes.com,
30 Aug. 2025
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Hernandez was charged with 19 counts of misconduct including theft of identity, fraud, falsification of Medicaid documents, nursing without a license and abuse of a patient, officials said.—
Paloma Chavez,
Sacbee.com,
29 Aug. 2025
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Users note that distortion and vignetting are well-controlled and require minimal correction in post-processing.—
Harry Bennett,
Space.com,
27 Aug. 2025
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These anticompetitive market distortions are akin to NTBs, such as the Space Act.—
Alden Abbott,
Forbes.com,
27 Aug. 2025
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To say that Pandemic Donuts single-handedly carried a significant portion of Denver through the COVID-19 pandemic would be an exaggeration.—
Jonathan Shikes,
Denver Post,
22 Aug. 2025
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In the Coen brothers’ films, wondrous coincidences and absurd exaggerations come off as a comic cosmic order, as a cynical version of metaphysics.—
Richard Brody,
New Yorker,
21 Aug. 2025
Noun
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And then everything else about the money is just another lie.—
Baz Bamigboye,
Deadline,
2 Sep. 2025
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It is entirely based on Hamas’s campaign of lies and the laundering of those lies by others.—
Jesus Mesa,
MSNBC Newsweek,
1 Sep. 2025
Noun
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The rippling fallout of war on families has long been fertile ground for cinema — trauma is calcified while secrets from the past become myths, either perpetuated long enough to solidify into fact or exposed as falsehoods that cause entire identities to be questioned.—
David Rooney,
HollywoodReporter,
28 Aug. 2025
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Doctors say medical misinformation has gotten worse A new survey of doctors shows medical falsehoods have grown not only online, but also within the medical exam rooms where doctors and patients interact.—
Elizabeth Robinson,
NBC news,
20 Aug. 2025
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This week, Stuart Heritage reports from the U.K. on why The Salt Path, the inspirational best-selling memoir by Raynor Winn, now seems to be a hive of untruths.—
Air Mail,
Air Mail,
19 July 2025
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Social niceties and institutional language are his ways to tell untruths, even to himself, while keeping both the status quo and his organizational status intact.—
Matthew Clark Davison,
Literary Hub,
3 July 2025
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“Misrepresentation.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/misrepresentation. Accessed 8 Sep. 2025.
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