as in misstatement
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Noun
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Evans’ book also tackles the dangers of misinformation online, the eight components of a solid financial plan and even includes a recipe for a chocolate martini to ease life’s challenges.—
Forbes Press Releases,
Forbes,
25 Mar. 2025 -
Sachs and her interviewees suggest that the young generation gets their information mostly online and is influenced by misinformation as well as news sources controlled by adversarial nations.—
Alissa Simon,
Variety,
24 Mar. 2025
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The Federal Communications Commission's news distortion investigation into CBS drew a public rebuke from a bipartisan group of five former FCC commissioners, including two former chairmen.—
ArsTechnica,
ArsTechnica,
28 Mar. 2025
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Attention also could be paid to dismantling foreign anticompetitive market distortions, in order to augment the benefits achieved through the Task Force.—
Alden Abbott,
Forbes.com,
28 Mar. 2025
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The figure was later debunked as a wild exaggeration.—
Daniel R. Depetris,
Newsweek,
25 Mar. 2025
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Employees who are naturally inclined toward exaggeration will learn that drama doesn’t work in your environment.—
Mark Murphy,
Forbes,
21 Mar. 2025
Noun
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The power to classify or declassify lies in the hands of top federal officials, including the president and Cabinet secretaries.—
David Klepper,
Los Angeles Times,
29 Mar. 2025
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Approaching her parents now means exposing her lies, which could trigger a range of harsh reactions.—
Kwame Anthony Appiah,
New York Times,
28 Mar. 2025
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This is a dangerous falsehood that Kennedy has also recently repeated.—
Ars Technica,
Ars Technica,
20 Mar. 2025
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The failure of the Minsk accords leaves no doubt as to the risks of perpetuating such falsehoods.—
Clare Sebastian,
CNN,
14 Mar. 2025
Noun
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The writer’s task is the sculpting of these untruths into a work of art, into a cohesive story that suspends the readers’ belief, gently ushers them into the imaginary and holds them there.—
Abubakar Adam Ibrahim,
The Dial,
4 Mar. 2025
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The invention soon collapses under the burden of its own untruth, wasting time in which the victims of its fiction could have taken more effective action to protect themselves.—
David Frum,
The Atlantic,
12 Mar. 2025
Noun
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Well, those with a silky fabrication can protect the skin around your eyes from friction, and minimize creasing from pillows and bedsheets.—
Kristine Thomason,
Vogue,
14 Mar. 2025
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But even Oberon didn’t know such fabrications ran generations deep.—
Kendra Nordin Beato,
The Christian Science Monitor,
13 Mar. 2025
Noun
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But conservatism ought not to be equated with populist buffoonery and mendacity.—
Jay Nordlinger,
National Review,
14 Oct. 2024
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And mendacity and brutality and remorseless destruction of people’s lives.—
Taylor Antrim,
Vogue,
10 Oct. 2024
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“Misrepresentation.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/misrepresentation. Accessed 2 Apr. 2025.
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