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Recent Examples of Synonyms for misstatement
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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
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Perhaps unsurprisingly the main thrust of the Trend Micro research is looking at how AI is being used to make the lies that are used to get victims to click on links or divulge login credentials.—
Davey Winder,
Forbes,
17 Mar. 2025
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The event unlocks a series of secrets, lies and regrets, as the people left behind can’t move forward without looking at the past.—
Anthony D'Alessandro,
Deadline,
17 Mar. 2025
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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
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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
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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
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They are modified with effects like chorus and distortion, which are all modeled, too.—
Nate Anderson,
Ars Technica,
10 Mar. 2025
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“Misstatement.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/misstatement. Accessed 20 Mar. 2025.
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