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Recent Examples of misrepresentation
So the investors are suing her and Joggy for securities fraud, misrepresentation, unjust enrichment, breach of contract and more.
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Justin Wingerter, Denver Post, 23 Oct. 2025
This misrepresentation appears to have been a central element in persuading Craig Lampley to agree to transfer ownership.
—Daniel Bice, jsonline.com, 17 Oct. 2025
The indictment claims James' actions constituted intentional misrepresentation.
—Deputy News Editor, MSNBC Newsweek, 10 Oct. 2025
Dawgs claimed that the misrepresentation allowed customers to think that the Croslite resin was different from what was used by other shoe manufacturers.
—Vicki M. Young, Footwear News, 7 Oct. 2025
Paramount’s claim that the Pledge is an attempt to silence Israeli artists is a purposeful misrepresentation of the boycott and its objective.
—Selome Hailu, Variety, 6 Oct. 2025
The superintendent of Iowa’s largest school district, who was detained last week by immigration agents, falsely claimed a doctoral degree when applying for the job two years ago but was hired even after the school board learned about the misrepresentation.
—Dave Smith, Fortune, 2 Oct. 2025
As his Legacy of Lies boasts unravelled, writer Anu Verma sued the businessman, alleging fraudulent misrepresentation.
—Jake Kanter, Deadline, 25 Sep. 2025
Steinbaugh and Eugene Volokh, a First Amendment scholar and professor of law emeritus at the University of California, Los Angeles School of Law, both pointed to Bondi’s misrepresentation of hate speech as legally unprotected and the FCC’s role in Kimmel’s suspension.
—Angele Latham, Nashville Tennessean, 19 Sep. 2025
Justin Wingerter, Denver Post, 23 Oct. 2025
This misrepresentation appears to have been a central element in persuading Craig Lampley to agree to transfer ownership.
—Daniel Bice, jsonline.com, 17 Oct. 2025
The indictment claims James' actions constituted intentional misrepresentation.
—Deputy News Editor, MSNBC Newsweek, 10 Oct. 2025
Dawgs claimed that the misrepresentation allowed customers to think that the Croslite resin was different from what was used by other shoe manufacturers.
—Vicki M. Young, Footwear News, 7 Oct. 2025
Paramount’s claim that the Pledge is an attempt to silence Israeli artists is a purposeful misrepresentation of the boycott and its objective.
—Selome Hailu, Variety, 6 Oct. 2025
The superintendent of Iowa’s largest school district, who was detained last week by immigration agents, falsely claimed a doctoral degree when applying for the job two years ago but was hired even after the school board learned about the misrepresentation.
—Dave Smith, Fortune, 2 Oct. 2025
As his Legacy of Lies boasts unravelled, writer Anu Verma sued the businessman, alleging fraudulent misrepresentation.
—Jake Kanter, Deadline, 25 Sep. 2025
Steinbaugh and Eugene Volokh, a First Amendment scholar and professor of law emeritus at the University of California, Los Angeles School of Law, both pointed to Bondi’s misrepresentation of hate speech as legally unprotected and the FCC’s role in Kimmel’s suspension.
—Angele Latham, Nashville Tennessean, 19 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for misrepresentation
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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
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So, this mass misstatement is no help to those erstwhile interstellar explorers.—
Don Lincoln,
Big Think,
29 Aug. 2025
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Now everyone seems to own a gun and have a far-right sign in their front yard; even her once liberal ex-boyfriend is spouting misinformation about Haitian immigrants.—
Grace Byron,
New Yorker,
22 Oct. 2025
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Hybrid assaults can mean anything from cyber campaigns to the spread of misinformation and weaponizing migration.—
Ellie Cook,
MSNBC Newsweek,
22 Oct. 2025
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That falsification led to lower import duties.—
Rosemary Feitelberg,
Footwear News,
1 Oct. 2025
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The first jury, by contrast, deliberated for days before acquitting Amiri of conspiracy, multiple deprivation-of-rights charges and convicting him of the single dog attack and records falsification.—
Nate Gartrell,
Mercury News,
19 Sep. 2025
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Personal remembrance becomes interwoven with political fiction, historical fact, and mythological distortion in the flood of stories that customarily follows a war.—
Elizabeth D. Samet,
Foreign Affairs,
29 Oct. 2025
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The last quarter of the eighteenth century was a pre-democratic era, and all efforts to read a Jacksonian or Tocquevillian faith in the wisdom of the common man into the American founding are misleading distortions.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
28 Oct. 2025
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Pharrell and Adidas have released hundreds of sneakers together — and that’s no exaggeration.—
Riley Jones,
Footwear News,
27 Oct. 2025
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Peace in the Middle East is, of course, a florid exaggeration.—
Eric Cortellessa,
Time,
23 Oct. 2025
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Jackson imagined the Shire as idyllic beyond measure — cozy cottages dug into the landscape's gentle green slopes, totally free of the conflict and violence that the saga's Hobbit quartet eventually learn lie just beyond its borders.—
Ryan Coleman,
Entertainment Weekly,
28 Oct. 2025
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In an interview with WWD, Khalifa Bin Braik, chief executive officer of Majid Al Futtaim Asset Management, discusses the strategic thinking behind the transformation as well as the company’s ambitious plans and where the future of retail lies.—
Ritu Upadhyay,
Footwear News,
28 Oct. 2025
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The right side is nearly always wrong and blatantly lying, while the left side supposedly stumbles into falsehood every once in a while.—
Tim Graham,
Boston Herald,
25 Oct. 2025
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The only way forward is through compromise and cooperation — not falsehoods and finger-pointing.—
DP Opinion,
Denver Post,
19 Oct. 2025
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The untruth Comey told in Trump Tower soon came back into the picture when, on March 15, 2017, Comey talked privately to members of the Senate Judiciary Committee.—
Byron York,
The Washington Examiner,
28 Sep. 2025
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Those that prioritize speed over accuracy might spit out plenty of seemingly unrealistic untruths.—
Jasmin Malik Chua,
Sourcing Journal,
17 Sep. 2025
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“Misrepresentation.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/misrepresentation. Accessed 29 Oct. 2025.
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