misstatement

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for misstatement
Noun
  • This helps ensure that customer trust isn’t eroded by the deleterious impact of misinformation disseminated by illegitimate word of mouth.
    Branden Abushanab, Forbes, 14 Mar. 2025
  • The internet can be an unforgiving place to share so openly, and on the other side of her largely positive reception, she's watched a lot of misinformation spread about her journey since going viral.
    Zoey Lyttle, People.com, 13 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • With overtime, the opportunity for avoidance lies in worker classification.
    Shahar Ziv, Forbes, 5 Mar. 2025
  • If fiction is the crafting of lies, why are writers always being asked about the truth?
    Abubakar Adam Ibrahim, The Dial, 4 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • The comedic exaggeration is clear, but the bit is also a gesture to something deeper: Americans are skeptical about their government’s national security claims against China and open to seeing the country and its people through a different light.
    Mark Tseng-Putterman / Made by History, TIME, 10 Mar. 2025
  • This scale ranks objects from 0, meaning no impact, to 10, which is (ok, this is a slight exaggeration) nearly as bad as the destruction of Alderaan in Star Wars.
    Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 24 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • An Invisible Risk The standard literature defines cognitive bias as a systematic distortion that affects decision making processes and cognitive understanding, often resulting from limited data sets and unconscious biases and decision protocols favoring certain viewpoints.
    Cristian Randieri, Forbes, 14 Mar. 2025
  • Over the weekend, China’s consumer inflation dropped below zero for the first time in 13 months due to seasonal distortions and deflationary pressures.
    Amala Balakrishner, CNBC, 10 Mar. 2025
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“Misstatement.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/misstatement. Accessed 19 Mar. 2025.

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