misspeaks

verb

present tense third-person singular of misspeak
as in mistranslates

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  1. misstates
  2. misinterprets
  3. misrepresents
  4. dissembles
  5. distorts
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  • The main problem, lawyers previously told CBS News, is that the FACE Act fundamentally misstates the rights people have under the First Amendment.
    — Sarah N. Lynch, CBS News, 14 Apr. 2026
  • Following a misleading report on hospital finances, The Denver Post published an editorial that misrepresents UCHealth’s role in caring for Colorado patients and misstates key facts about our financial operations.
    — Elizabeth B. Concordia, Denver Post, 29 Dec. 2025
Definition of misstates
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  • When a customer-facing agent misinterprets policy, trust erodes instantly.
    — Nitin Rakesh, Forbes.com, 26 May 2026
  • Despite that promise, reports indicate the tool often misinterprets requests.
    — Thomas Westerholm, MSNBC Newsweek, 31 Mar. 2026
Definition of misinterprets
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  • That description is inaccurate and misrepresents both our organization and our mission.
    — Torie Bosch, STAT, 18 July 2026
  • The Domestic Policy Council also mischaracterizes and misrepresents the words of the museum’s director, Anthea Hartig, who has consistently worked to educate and inform visitors through innovative exhibits and inspirational programs.
    — Marc Stein, Time, 8 July 2026
Definition of misrepresents
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  • With his multi-instrumentalist bandmates, PJ Moore and co-songwriter Robert Bell, Buchanan zooms into these exchanges to prolong them or dissembles them into jagged pieces that leave the bigger picture to us.
    — Sam Sodomsky, Pitchfork, 1 Feb. 2026
Definition of dissembles
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  • So this distorts things – the sub numbers don’t really tell the story.
    — Georg Szalai, HollywoodReporter, 14 July 2026
  • Nigeria rejected the International Monetary Fund’s finding that the country has engaged in extra-budgetary public spending that distorts its deficit levels, blaming poor interpretation of its financial reporting method for the misunderstanding.
    — Alexander Onukwue, semafor.com, 10 July 2026
Definition of distorts
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