mislead
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The technology might still eliminate jobs, manipulate or mislead users, or automate away forms of expression that used to be exclusively human.
From Slate ● Sep. 9, 2026
The change could mislead consumer, marketing and aviation experts said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 14, 2026
Novo Nordisk filed a lawsuit against Eli Lilly, accusing it of using outdated studies to mislead consumers about the comparative weight-loss effectiveness of its GLP-1 drugs Mounjaro and Zepbound against Novo Nordisk’s Ozempic and Wegovy.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 21, 2026
"If fabricated studies make their way into the evidence base, they can mislead real scientists and ultimately slow progress for patients. That's why it's vital we get ahead of this problem."
From Science Daily ● Jul. 16, 2026
In fact, quotation marks used like that can mislead the reader.
From "Woe Is I" by Patricia T. O'Conner
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One major reason is fraud, where one party intentionally misleads the other before the agreement is signed, causing the other party to enter the contract based on false information.
From MarketWatch ● May 20, 2026
The Times report misleads readers about Supreme Court procedure.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 26, 2026
“Attempting to classify foods as unhealthy simply because they are processed, or demonizing food by ignoring its full nutrient content, misleads consumers and exacerbates health disparities,” Gallo said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 2, 2025
The Environmental Protection Agency has taken the first ever federal action against a system that misleads consumers about the recycled content in plastic products.
From Salon ● Aug. 31, 2024
The forest's gloom makes our steps go astray; Each thicket of trees our searching misleads.
From The Wisdom of Confucius with Critical and Biographical Sketches by Epiphanius Wilson
Callaghan “had no idea it had anything to do with crypto, he was completely misled by Hunter Biden,” Mitchell Jackson, a representative for Callaghan and other popular social-media figures, told MarketWatch.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 9, 2026
The settlement would resolve a multistate lawsuit that alleged Meta designed and deployed addictive features that harmed young people and misled the public about the potential dangers.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 28, 2026
We first revealed the emerging scandal in March where a small group of parents appeared to have been misled about donors.
From BBC ● Aug. 18, 2026
It is possible that Hearn could request an investigation into whether the grand jury was misled.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 3, 2026
Many said they felt they had been misled by the Japanese government during the disaster, so they refused to trust the government’s assurances that the towns were safe after the cleanup.
From "Meltdown" by Deirdre Langeland
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Kennedy has recommended the MMR vaccine, but also shared misleading information about its safety.
From Salon ● Sep. 12, 2026
“Altus has sat back as blame for a fire they started wrongly focused on Lineage — knowing that the public narrative was misleading, perhaps thinking that they might escape blame,” the suit reads.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 10, 2026
The subtitle “Hunt for Saddam” is a bit misleading: Saddam is found before the end of episode 3, and a viewer might think, “Time for a shawarma.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 10, 2026
Meta's Community Notes is a system modeled on a similar program at Elon Musk's X, allowing users themselves to add context to potentially misleading content.
From Barron's ● Sep. 10, 2026
Only two fire companies were not fooled by the misleading alarm.
From "The Great Fire" by Jim Murphy
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