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as in misstatements
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Recent Examples of misrepresentations
The lawsuit accuses Roblox and Discord of wrongful death, fraudulent concealment and misrepresentations, negligent misrepresentation and strict liability.
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Marlene Lenthang, NBC news, 14 Sep. 2025
Marlene Lenthang, NBC news, 14 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for misrepresentations
- enhancements
- fabrications
- misinformation
- exaggerations
- distortions
- inaccuracies
- misinterpretations
- misunderstandings
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Three of the charges carry enhancements, one with fleeing the scene of a crime and two for great bodily injury to the victim, prosecutors said.—
Jason Green,
Mercury News,
19 Mar. 2026
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While prosecutors continue investigating hate crime enhancements, the community remains shaken by the brazen, daytime violence.—
Staff,
FOXNews.com,
19 Mar. 2026
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Founder Giorgia Gabriele’s elevated take on fashion archetypes, top-notch fabrications and precise execution make such an exercise child’s play.—
Sandra Salibian,
Footwear News,
2 Mar. 2026
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Despite a challenging 2025 and ongoing price pressures impacting both retailers and consumers, brands are pushing forward with premium fabrics, new fabrications and more directional design statements.—
Angela Velasquez,
Sourcing Journal,
23 Feb. 2026
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But a program that reaches classrooms over the coming years will not help the millions of New Yorkers worried right now about whether AI will take their jobs, flood elections with misinformation, or be used in ways that affect their civil liberties without their knowledge.—
Andrew Rasiej,
New York Daily News,
22 Mar. 2026
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Psychologists studying misinformation describe what happens when people lose confidence in their ability to tell what’s real.—
Nick Dothée,
The Atlantic,
22 Mar. 2026
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Free of the trappings and exaggerations of the 1980s, fashion had turned to celebrating clothes in their simplest, purest form, with invisible seams and clean lines, devoid of embellishments and in a strictly neutral, pattern-free palette.—
Valentina Bottoni,
Vanity Fair,
13 Mar. 2026
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But Chan also claimed to have ties to Asian gangs, at one point asked Kim to help him get rid of a body and spoke about killing other students, which Chan came to see as lies or exaggerations.—
Sean Emery,
Oc Register,
27 Feb. 2026
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On the surface, my life seemed organized around the pursuit of truth, but I was simultaneously being drawn into the heady distortions of the digital sphere, spending more and more of my time online.—
Hannah Gold,
Harpers Magazine,
24 Mar. 2026
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Continue reading … CREDIBILITY CRISIS — FCC chair Brendan Carr warns broadcasters must 'correct course' on 'news distortions' before license renewals.—
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FOXNews.com,
16 Mar. 2026
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Participants also self-reported their diets, which leaved room for inaccuracies.—
Brian Mastroianni,
Health,
9 Mar. 2026
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Many also contain errors in physics or other inaccuracies when showing a missile or rocket attack.—
Geoff Brumfiel,
NPR,
8 Mar. 2026
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Beatty said those early misinterpretations frequently determine what evidence exists later.—
Stephen Martin,
Oklahoma Watch,
13 Jan. 2026
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Doubts have been cast on jobs data due to misinterpretations of the labor bureau’s routine reviews of its statistics and its admissions about the difficulty of getting answers to its employment surveys.—
Jonathan Lansner,
Oc Register,
8 Jan. 2026
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This can escalate misunderstandings.—
Mark Travers,
CNBC,
22 Mar. 2026
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The premise that Valerie must keep that AI secret from the rest of her cast, and from the industry as a whole, gives this season a solid comedic game and allows for the kind of misunderstandings and humiliations that are the meat and potatoes of classic situation comedy.—
Jackson McHenry,
Vulture,
20 Mar. 2026
Cite this Entry
“Misrepresentations.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/misrepresentations. Accessed 30 Mar. 2026.
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