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Recent Examples of misrepresentation
The indictment claims James' actions constituted intentional misrepresentation.
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Deputy News Editor, MSNBC Newsweek, 10 Oct. 2025
Dawgs claimed that the misrepresentation allowed customers to think that the Croslite resin was different from what was used by other shoe manufacturers.
—Vicki M. Young, Footwear News, 7 Oct. 2025
Paramount’s claim that the Pledge is an attempt to silence Israeli artists is a purposeful misrepresentation of the boycott and its objective.
—Selome Hailu, Variety, 6 Oct. 2025
The superintendent of Iowa’s largest school district, who was detained last week by immigration agents, falsely claimed a doctoral degree when applying for the job two years ago but was hired even after the school board learned about the misrepresentation.
—Dave Smith, Fortune, 2 Oct. 2025
As his Legacy of Lies boasts unravelled, writer Anu Verma sued the businessman, alleging fraudulent misrepresentation.
—Jake Kanter, Deadline, 25 Sep. 2025
Steinbaugh and Eugene Volokh, a First Amendment scholar and professor of law emeritus at the University of California, Los Angeles School of Law, both pointed to Bondi’s misrepresentation of hate speech as legally unprotected and the FCC’s role in Kimmel’s suspension.
—Angele Latham, Nashville Tennessean, 19 Sep. 2025
Offit fears any misrepresentation will push people away from COVID vaccines, particularly for small children.
—Andrea Tamayo, Scientific American, 18 Sep. 2025
The lawsuit accuses Roblox and Discord of wrongful death, fraudulent concealment and misrepresentations, negligent misrepresentation and strict liability.
—Marlene Lenthang, NBC news, 14 Sep. 2025
Deputy News Editor, MSNBC Newsweek, 10 Oct. 2025
Dawgs claimed that the misrepresentation allowed customers to think that the Croslite resin was different from what was used by other shoe manufacturers.
—Vicki M. Young, Footwear News, 7 Oct. 2025
Paramount’s claim that the Pledge is an attempt to silence Israeli artists is a purposeful misrepresentation of the boycott and its objective.
—Selome Hailu, Variety, 6 Oct. 2025
The superintendent of Iowa’s largest school district, who was detained last week by immigration agents, falsely claimed a doctoral degree when applying for the job two years ago but was hired even after the school board learned about the misrepresentation.
—Dave Smith, Fortune, 2 Oct. 2025
As his Legacy of Lies boasts unravelled, writer Anu Verma sued the businessman, alleging fraudulent misrepresentation.
—Jake Kanter, Deadline, 25 Sep. 2025
Steinbaugh and Eugene Volokh, a First Amendment scholar and professor of law emeritus at the University of California, Los Angeles School of Law, both pointed to Bondi’s misrepresentation of hate speech as legally unprotected and the FCC’s role in Kimmel’s suspension.
—Angele Latham, Nashville Tennessean, 19 Sep. 2025
Offit fears any misrepresentation will push people away from COVID vaccines, particularly for small children.
—Andrea Tamayo, Scientific American, 18 Sep. 2025
The lawsuit accuses Roblox and Discord of wrongful death, fraudulent concealment and misrepresentations, negligent misrepresentation and strict liability.
—Marlene Lenthang, NBC news, 14 Sep. 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
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Increasingly, misinformation and conspiracy theories about health fill a vacuum created by the lack of doctors, adding challenges to care.—
NPR,
NPR,
15 Oct. 2025
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From there the conversation went on to the topic of misinformation and disinformation about Covid, circumcision, baby formula and food dyes.—
Greg Evans,
Deadline,
14 Oct. 2025
Noun
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That falsification led to lower import duties.—
Rosemary Feitelberg,
Footwear News,
1 Oct. 2025
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The first jury, by contrast, deliberated for days before acquitting Amiri of conspiracy, multiple deprivation-of-rights charges and convicting him of the single dog attack and records falsification.—
Nate Gartrell,
Mercury News,
19 Sep. 2025
Noun
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The French duo that made distortion divine and disco dangerous is back on American soil.—
Alma Rota,
Rolling Stone,
14 Oct. 2025
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With a mass of about 1 million times that of Earth's sun, the object is considered the lowest-mass dark object yet found in the universe by analyzing gravitational distortions of light, according to the team of researchers.—
Eric Lagatta,
USA Today,
13 Oct. 2025
Noun
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There’ll be scenes that are inspired on certain realities, and there’ll be exaggerations.—
Naman Ramachandran,
Variety,
10 Oct. 2025
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Overstatement, gross exaggeration, outright lying.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
7 Oct. 2025
Noun
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That’s where Israel’s future lies.—
Efrat Lachter,
FOXNews.com,
14 Oct. 2025
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Like many people, she was taken in by his lies.—
Meredith Kile,
PEOPLE,
14 Oct. 2025
Noun
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The President didn’t help his case by spreading outlandish falsehoods.—
Jeannie Suk Gersen,
New Yorker,
12 Oct. 2025
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Her vicious falsehoods are especially harmful now, at the moment when all Americans need to find common ground and affirm that political violence is never, ever acceptable.—
DP Opinion,
Denver Post,
29 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Those that prioritize speed over accuracy might spit out plenty of seemingly unrealistic untruths.—
Jasmin Malik Chua,
Sourcing Journal,
17 Sep. 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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“Misrepresentation.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/misrepresentation. Accessed 19 Oct. 2025.
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