misstatement

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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. 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
  • The novel, published to immediate controversy in India—an obscenity suit was filed over its portrayal of an intercaste romance—offended her Syrian Christian kin, who grumbled about misrepresentation.
    Rebecca Mead, New Yorker, 3 Sep. 2025
  • As with the terms hipster or democracy, though, the true definition of midcentury modern has steadily eroded from overuse and blatant misrepresentation on Facebook Marketplace.
    Will Speros, Architectural Digest, 3 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • The chatbot can spew misinformation and offer risky advice.
    Anna Halkidis, Parents, 3 Sep. 2025
  • Share credible information from trusted sources with family and friends to counter misinformation on vaccines.
    Bernadette Boden Albala, Forbes.com, 3 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • With 64% of job applicants admitting to résumé falsification, up from 55% just two years ago, according to StandOut CV, companies are hemorrhaging money on staffing and bad hires while genuine talent slips through traditional screening processes.
    Douglas B. Laney, Forbes.com, 30 Aug. 2025
  • Hernandez was charged with 19 counts of misconduct including theft of identity, fraud, falsification of Medicaid documents, nursing without a license and abuse of a patient, officials said.
    Paloma Chavez, Sacbee.com, 29 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • And then everything else about the money is just another lie.
    Baz Bamigboye, Deadline, 2 Sep. 2025
  • It is entirely based on Hamas’s campaign of lies and the laundering of those lies by others.
    Jesus Mesa, MSNBC Newsweek, 1 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • To say that Pandemic Donuts single-handedly carried a significant portion of Denver through the COVID-19 pandemic would be an exaggeration.
    Jonathan Shikes, Denver Post, 22 Aug. 2025
  • In the Coen brothers’ films, wondrous coincidences and absurd exaggerations come off as a comic cosmic order, as a cynical version of metaphysics.
    Richard Brody, New Yorker, 21 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • Users note that distortion and vignetting are well-controlled and require minimal correction in post-processing.
    Harry Bennett, Space.com, 27 Aug. 2025
  • These anticompetitive market distortions are akin to NTBs, such as the Space Act.
    Alden Abbott, Forbes.com, 27 Aug. 2025

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“Misstatement.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/misstatement. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.

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