misleading

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“The untruths, mischaracterizations, and revisionist history in your email paint a completely misleading narrative,” Shotwell told the Journal in a statement in 2024.

From MarketWatch • Jun. 11, 2026

Oregon and Pennsylvania also took the charity to court over the misleading jingle in 2009, resulting in a $130,000 fine and a requirement to disclose its affiliations in all advertisements.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 6, 2026

Logan laid out a competing perspective, arguing that the trimmed-mean inflation rate can be misleading at times when the mix of price increases and decreases is changing rapidly across the economy.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 3, 2026

Plaintiffs in the class-action complaint allege Entrata’s business model is deceptive and misleading, which violates both the Credit Repair Organizations Act and the Colorado Credit Services Organization Act.

From MarketWatch • Jun. 2, 2026

But that neat triangle—already more of a rectangle— is completely misleading.

From "Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science" by Marc Aronson