misstate
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"He's pretty young, I will say. He's 17," the former president said, appearing to misstate his age.
From BBC ● May 10, 2024
But many legal scholars, along with university lawyers and administrators, believe at least some of those free-speech assertions muddle, misstate, test or even flout the amendment, which is meant to guard against state suppression.
From New York Times ● May 1, 2024
"Anytime someone discusses facts from memory, it is possible to inadvertently misstate details, even if small," he said.
From Salon ● Mar. 12, 2024
“When you misstate or frame statistics in a manner that support your view ...” Moore paused, then concluded his thought.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 18, 2023
Therefore, while to suppress a portion of the truth is at times wise and kind, to distort it, or misstate facts, is never needed and never excusable.
From A Woman of the World Her Counsel to Other People's Sons and Daughters by Wilcox, Ella Wheeler
Mr. Burke misstates the date the Air France plane was hijacked as July 6, 1976.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 20, 2026
Nikola said Milton's social media post "misstates the facts," adding in a statement to Reuters that the proposal to increase its share base could pass without his support.
From Reuters ● Jun. 16, 2023
“Bauer does not present any compelling argument as to why Thiagarajah’s using a synonym of the court’s own language misstates the court’s findings.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 23, 2022
An article on Page 8 this weekend about New York’s teen punk bands in the 1970s misstates the name Arthur Brennan adopted when he ran away to New York City to join a band.
From New York Times ● Aug. 6, 2022
A person is guilty of this fault whenever he misstates an opponent's argument, either because he does not understand it or through design, and then refutes this misstatement.
From Practical Argumentation by Pattee, George K.
A previous version of this report misstated the U.S.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 8, 2026
Correction, July 7, 2026: This article originally misstated that Kleban founded the Maine Brewing Company.
From Slate ● Jul. 7, 2026
The coordinated actions came after investigations into Evergrande’s financial statements for 2019 and 2020, which regulators said were materially misstated.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 23, 2026
Court Judge George Wu, misstated the law required to prove guilt, saying if Boylan “engaged in misconduct and/or acted with gross negligence,” he could be found guilty of the charge.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 3, 2026
These ideas are misunderstood and misstated, so that they become in large part forms of error.
From A Tour of the Missions Observations and Conclusions by Strong, Augustus Hopkins
“Santander’s decision to broadly market its new stated-income policy, even to dealers with a history of misstating income, led to a significant spike in the number of early payment defaults.”
From Salon ● Mar. 30, 2026
The efforts have faltered in court, with a grand jury earlier this month declining to indict James for allegedly misstating the intended use of a property in Norfolk, Va.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 22, 2025
In the courtroom, government lawyers actually told Judge Howell that these officials “don’t necessarily understand” legal “terms of art” like reasonable suspicion and probable cause and that they were just misstating the policy.
From Slate ● Dec. 7, 2025
If you think of immigrants as labor only, you are misstating the point.
From Barron's ● Oct. 9, 2025
Not long ago Mrs. Maud Wood Park, asserted that I was misstating the laws in suffrage states.
From Anti-Suffrage Essays by Various
