as in to misrepresent
to change so much as to create a wrong impression or alter the meaning of
it was important that the spokesperson not misstate the company's position to the media
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Recent Examples of misstate
An earlier version misstated the figure.
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Jeff Cox, CNBC, 5 Mar. 2025
The original version of this story misstated when Jodi Hildebrandt moved into the Frankes' home.
—Rachel Brodsky, TIME, 25 Feb. 2025
An article on Tuesday about law enforcement officials finding no evidence that the torture and killing of a transgender man whose remains were found in a field in upstate New York last week was a hate crime misstated the surname of the victim.
—New York Times, 19 Feb. 2025
An earlier version of this article misstated the institutional affiliations of cocurators Daisy Ocampo Diaz and Lina Tejeda.
—Maximilíano Durón, ARTnews.com, 17 Feb. 2025
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Jeff Cox, CNBC, 5 Mar. 2025
The original version of this story misstated when Jodi Hildebrandt moved into the Frankes' home.
—Rachel Brodsky, TIME, 25 Feb. 2025
An article on Tuesday about law enforcement officials finding no evidence that the torture and killing of a transgender man whose remains were found in a field in upstate New York last week was a hate crime misstated the surname of the victim.
—New York Times, 19 Feb. 2025
An earlier version of this article misstated the institutional affiliations of cocurators Daisy Ocampo Diaz and Lina Tejeda.
—Maximilíano Durón, ARTnews.com, 17 Feb. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for misstate
Verb
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Despite following legal guidelines, the video was accused of misrepresenting events and using replicas instead of authentic artifacts.—
Real-Time news team,
Miami Herald,
16 May 2025
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The news dropped just as The New York Times reported that the Securities and Exchange Commission was investigating whether Coinbase had misrepresented its user numbers in past filings.—
Theresa Braine,
New York Daily News,
15 May 2025
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Weekly figures by their very nature tend to be volatile, and when viewed alone could just be noise distorting the underlying trend.—
Christiaan Hetzner,
Fortune,
13 May 2025
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The idea was to first represent the optimism of America, which then dissipated into this darkness, which shifted, melted and distorted into an evil-looking clown.—
Tim Lammers,
Forbes.com,
8 May 2025
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“Misstate.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/misstate. Accessed 22 May. 2025.
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