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- misstatement
- misconstruction
- misinterpretation
- misunderstanding
- misconception
- misreading
- miscalculation
- misimpression
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One study — admittedly small and enabled by the hack of affair-arranging app Ashley Madison in 2015 — found that companies whose CEOs or CFOs were paying users of the site were twice as likely to have had a financial misstatement or involvement in a securities class action.—
Liz Hoffman,
semafor.com,
2 Sep. 2025 -
So, this mass misstatement is no help to those erstwhile interstellar explorers.—
Don Lincoln,
Big Think,
29 Aug. 2025
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Counsel should try to foresee and prevent any misconstruction.—
Joshua Stein,
Forbes,
15 Mar. 2025
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Ohanian used his misconstruction of employment figures as the basis for a wide-ranging critique of California economic policy, mostly citing how the high cost of living drives people out of the state.—
Michael Hiltzik,
Los Angeles Times,
3 Dec. 2024
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Independent fact-checkers said that was a misinterpretation of the findings.—
Katherine Dillinger,
CNN Money,
15 Sep. 2025
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Remember to stick to simple and transparent communication to avoid any kind of misinterpretation.—
Mark Travers,
Forbes.com,
13 Sep. 2025
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This misunderstanding leads to unrealistic expectations and underwhelming results.—
Terry Goertz,
Forbes.com,
16 Sep. 2025
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This is the classic day for misunderstandings and failure of communications.—
Georgia Nicols,
Denver Post,
14 Sep. 2025
Noun
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First Mover ≠ First Builder There’s a popular misconception that the first-mover advantage is about being first to invent something.—
Bowen Liu,
Forbes.com,
15 Sep. 2025
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Fellowes would also like to clear up a misconception about The Grand Finale, which is commonly being referred to as the definitive end of the long-running franchise.—
Andy Swift,
TVLine,
13 Sep. 2025
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Call it a valiant, optimistic, perhaps even a calamitous misreading.—
Nick Paton Walsh,
CNN Money,
8 Sep. 2025
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In Washington, Captain Olivia Walker (Rebecca Ferguson), gets his report and responds with concern but not alarm—the belief, at the beginning, is that somehow this is a misreading or a mistake.—
Stephanie Zacharek,
Time,
3 Sep. 2025
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But this has proved a miscalculation.—
Koray Köse,
Forbes.com,
19 Sep. 2025
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But with just days remaining before the government runs out of money, the path forward is narrowing—and the political costs of miscalculation are mounting.—
Nik Popli,
Time,
18 Sep. 2025
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Revealing unverified or incomplete information could hurt investigations, prejudice prosecutions, violate privacy or create misimpressions, according to the agency.—
Bart Jansen,
USA TODAY,
5 June 2023
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For roughly four hours, the hearing played out as a fusillade of statistics, impressions and misimpressions, as Republicans argued that New York was a hellscape of unchecked violence and chaos — viral videos of which were shown on local news programs around the country to to prove it.—
Ginia Bellafante,
New York Times,
18 Apr. 2023
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“Misdescription.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/misdescription. Accessed 20 Sep. 2025.
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