misstate
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bend, color, cook, distort, falsify, fudge, garble, misinterpret, misrelate, misrepresent, pervert, slant, twist, warp
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An article on Sunday about employees of a Florida nursing home facing charges in the deaths of residents after Hurricane Irma, using information from officials, misstated the title of one of the employees to be charged. — New York Times, "Corrections: August 27, 2019," 27 Aug. 2019 Correction: An earlier version of this article misstated the amount the couple allegedly paid. — CBS News, "Legal strategy of Lori Loughlin and husband in college admissions scandal could backfire," 27 Aug. 2019 Pot pushes out artists in Oakland, Aug. 11, A9 The story, which began on the front page, misstated Kelley Kahn’s title. — SFChronicle.com, "Corrections, Aug. 12," 11 Aug. 2019 An earlier version of this article misstated Shari Redstone's title at National Amusements. — NBC News, "If CBS and Viacom reunite, more mergers could be on the way," 30 July 2019 In some editions Wednesday, a story about a teen killed by a licensed gun owner in a car theft attempt misstated the Chicago intersection where a high-speed chase ended. — chicagotribune.com, "Corrections and clarifications," 14 Aug. 2019 Editor's Note: This article originally misstated the size of Gaza. — Heidi Levine, National Geographic, "Plastics in the Gaza Strip are both a curse and a blessing," 7 Aug. 2019 And Lundquist says Lee is misstating her position on homelessness, arguing that housing is the biggest — but not the only — factor driving homelessness. — Emily Alpert Reyes, Los Angeles Times, "Breaking up the status quo at L.A. City Hall? Both of these candidates argue they’ll do it," 5 Aug. 2019 In October 2017, the FEC approved an audit covering the last six months of 2012 that found the Conservative Majority Fund had misstated its financial activity. — Derek Willis, ProPublica, "How Fundraisers Convinced Conservatives to Donate $10 Million — Then Kept Almost All of It.," 26 July 2019These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'misstate.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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