as in misrepresentation
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as in weaseling
to avoid giving a definite answer or position
the candidate was criticized for fudging on most of the questions during the debate
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as in cheating
to use dishonest methods to achieve a goal
she's been fudging on her taxes for years
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as in misrepresenting
to change so much as to create a wrong impression or alter the meaning of
fudged the facts about his educational background so he could get the position
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Recent Examples of fudging
Daniel Fienberg,
HollywoodReporter,
12 Nov. 2025
But the number-fudging didn’t end there.
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Luciana Lopez,
CNN Money,
18 Aug. 2025
Winston Cho,
HollywoodReporter,
21 Apr. 2026
No more tiny little pencils – or fudging those tallies.
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Dewayne Bevil,
The Orlando Sentinel,
16 Mar. 2026
Meanwhile, Charlotte’s husband is debriefing with Shaw, while obviously fudging the details of Pauly’s death.
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Louis Peitzman,
Vulture,
24 Nov. 2025
Kennedy accused Monarez of fudging the reason she was dismissed.
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Swapna Venugopal Ramaswamy,
USA Today,
17 Sep. 2025
This can be done daily, making the sensors timely and not subject to fudging or underreporting.
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Vipin Bharathan,
Forbes.com,
31 Aug. 2025
Trump alleged over Truth Social that the District has been fudging statistics to create the appearance that crime was on the decline.
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Jonathan Easley,
The Hill,
18 Aug. 2025
Noun
The primary visual trickery comes in the form of slowed or accelerated film stock, rather than obvious digital fudging.
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Daniel Fienberg,
HollywoodReporter,
12 Nov. 2025
But the number-fudging didn’t end there.
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Luciana Lopez,
CNN Money,
18 Aug. 2025
Verb
For some of these inquiries, the read-in-between-the-lines accusation was that Neon is fudging the numbers.
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Winston Cho,
HollywoodReporter,
21 Apr. 2026
No more tiny little pencils – or fudging those tallies.
—
Dewayne Bevil,
The Orlando Sentinel,
16 Mar. 2026
Meanwhile, Charlotte’s husband is debriefing with Shaw, while obviously fudging the details of Pauly’s death.
—
Louis Peitzman,
Vulture,
24 Nov. 2025
Kennedy accused Monarez of fudging the reason she was dismissed.
—
Swapna Venugopal Ramaswamy,
USA Today,
17 Sep. 2025
This can be done daily, making the sensors timely and not subject to fudging or underreporting.
—
Vipin Bharathan,
Forbes.com,
31 Aug. 2025
Trump alleged over Truth Social that the District has been fudging statistics to create the appearance that crime was on the decline.
—
Jonathan Easley,
The Hill,
18 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for fudging
Noun
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The plaintiffs have also accused Bayer of negligence and misrepresentation of Roundup's safety in its marketing, and have alleged that the product was defective for its intended purpose.
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But worse than misrepresentation—lies.
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And using what looks like a giant pile of gerbil food for half-day cooking projects just feels like cheating.
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The chapters moved from crime rates to cheating teachers to drug dealers living with their mothers, linking unlikely variables with a kind of intellectual mischief that felt almost illicit.
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Lawyers can face serious sanctions, including Florida Bar complaints, for citing nonexistent cases or misrepresenting prior rulings.
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At the same time, organizations can't assume every candidate is misrepresenting themselves simply because AI was involved somewhere in the process.
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The company also said, without much hedging, that some of those same capabilities could be misused once the guardrails came off.
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While options flows in the chip stocks still show significant hedging activity, trading around the VIX points to a more bullish outlook for stocks.
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Weil writes of attention as a way of engaging with the world without the distorting lens of the ego.
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The orchid doubles in her view, the room around her distorting.
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Engineers could compare different surface coatings and fabrication methods to identify options that produce the least electrical noise, helping improve the performance of future quantum computers and quantum sensing technologies.
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For Cutcher-Gershenfeld, the lesson extends far beyond fabrication laboratories.
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“Fudging.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/fudging. Accessed 5 Jul. 2026.
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