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Recent Examples of misstatement
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.
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Liz Hoffman, semafor.com, 2 Sep. 2025
So, this mass misstatement is no help to those erstwhile interstellar explorers.
—Don Lincoln, Big Think, 29 Aug. 2025
Liz Hoffman, semafor.com, 2 Sep. 2025
So, this mass misstatement is no help to those erstwhile interstellar explorers.
—Don Lincoln, Big Think, 29 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for misstatement
Noun
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The indictment claims James' actions constituted intentional misrepresentation.—
Deputy News Editor,
MSNBC Newsweek,
10 Oct. 2025
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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
Noun
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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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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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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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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
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“Misstatement.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/misstatement. Accessed 19 Oct. 2025.
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