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as in misstatements
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Recent Examples of misrepresentations
The lawsuit accuses Roblox and Discord of wrongful death, fraudulent concealment and misrepresentations, negligent misrepresentation and strict liability.
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Marlene Lenthang, NBC news, 14 Sep. 2025
Marlene Lenthang, NBC news, 14 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for misrepresentations
- enhancements
- fabrications
- misinformation
- exaggerations
- distortions
- inaccuracies
- misinterpretations
- misunderstandings
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Sandalow said that means states will focus on enhancements and upgrades to their current systems.—
Sarah Jane Tribble,
CBS News,
27 Apr. 2026
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The creators plan to add support for more games in the future, and players will also be able to create their own enhancements for individual games using tools built into the emulator.—
Andrew Cunningham,
ArsTechnica,
27 Apr. 2026
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But Morganroth’s previous stops in at least four states and numerous publications were also marked by falsehoods and fabrications about her background, The Denver Post found.—
Sam Tabachnik,
Denver Post,
8 Apr. 2026
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As models have grown more complex, some hallucinate with more persuasive fabrications.—
Ronan Farrow,
New Yorker,
6 Apr. 2026
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But misinformation campaigns and a lack of trust in public health officials have caused population-level protection against the virus to plummet.—
Brenda Goodman,
CNN Money,
24 Apr. 2026
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During the Covid-19 pandemic, misinformation led people to decline vaccines, reject public health guidance, and turn to unproven treatments.—
Ava Dzurenda,
STAT,
24 Apr. 2026
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Williams, of course, worked at NBC for nearly three decades, including an 11-year run at NBC Nightly News that ended 2015 after exaggerations and falsehoods were found in some of his reporting, including reports from Iraq, and from New Orleans after it had been ravaged by Hurricane Katrina.—
Alex Weprin,
HollywoodReporter,
16 Apr. 2026
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The lurch from declaring fears about Iran to be mere media exaggerations to invoking imminent threat, from demanding the Nobel Peace Prize to luxuriating in lethality, is the essence of the autocrat’s monopoly on unpredictability.—
Fintan O’Toole,
The New York Review of Books,
9 Apr. 2026
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This will allow Roman to hunt down exoplanets through flickers, or distortions, in starlight as planets pass in front of stars — assuming the distortions aren't due to starquakes, or some other stellar phenomena.—
Elizabeth Howell,
Space.com,
21 Apr. 2026
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The film opens with real mirages filmed near Aswan in Egypt, where atmospheric conditions produce optical distortions.—
Lise Pedersen,
Variety,
20 Apr. 2026
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These past errors created a significant backlog of registration inaccuracies that must be addressed with urgency before the upcoming May elections and the 2026 cycle.—
Paula Wethington,
CBS News,
22 Apr. 2026
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Check your credit report for errors or inaccuracies (especially after debt settlement) and dispute anything that looks wrong.—
Andreina Rodriguez,
CNBC,
20 Apr. 2026
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Beatty said those early misinterpretations frequently determine what evidence exists later.—
Stephen Martin,
Oklahoma Watch,
13 Jan. 2026
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Doubts have been cast on jobs data due to misinterpretations of the labor bureau’s routine reviews of its statistics and its admissions about the difficulty of getting answers to its employment surveys.—
Jonathan Lansner,
Oc Register,
8 Jan. 2026
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Pig myths and misunderstandings McLeod and Jennings are quick to dispel myths about their family of pigs.—
Eric Adler
April 26,
Kansas City Star,
26 Apr. 2026
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Washington and Hollywood have long had an awkward relationship, with players in each power center harboring insecurities and misunderstandings about the other as politics and entertainment have steadily merged into a single cultural force.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
24 Apr. 2026
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“Misrepresentations.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/misrepresentations. Accessed 1 May. 2026.
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