misrepresentations

plural of misrepresentation

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Recent Examples of misrepresentations The lawsuit accuses Roblox and Discord of wrongful death, fraudulent concealment and misrepresentations, negligent misrepresentation and strict liability. Marlene Lenthang, NBC news, 14 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for misrepresentations
Noun
  • In his sentencing decisions last week, O’Connor employed the terrorism enhancements to trigger mandatory minimum prison terms and ordered their sentences to be served consecutively.
    Mia Cathell, The Washington Examiner, 1 July 2026
  • Six Flags Over Georgia's Georgia Gold Rusher will be shut down for enhancements for the rest of 2026.
    Dan Raby, CBS News, 1 July 2026
Noun
  • Since Musk, the world’s richest person, took over X (then Twitter) in 2022 in a $44B deal, the site has come under constant criticism for promoting extremist content and misinformation.
    Jesse Whittock, Deadline, 3 July 2026
  • Dean Logan, the head of the Los Angeles County registrar-recorder/county clerk’s office, said his office is fighting to contain a wave of election misinformation, including some that is amplified by the White House.
    Ana Ceballos Follow, Los Angeles Times, 2 July 2026
Noun
  • Crane offered a similar read, describing the collection as both new and familiar — the kind of pieces that could believably have been thrifted from a Venice Beach shop, even as fabrications like Terry and slub cotton give them a softer, more contemporary hand.
    Renan Botelho, Footwear News, 24 June 2026
  • While some were obvious fabrications, meant to aggrandize the narrator by his association with Tsietsi, most seemed true.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 16 June 2026
Noun
  • Critics pointed to technological deficiencies, market distortions, misallocation of capital, inefficient state intervention, corruption, and questions about implementation.
    Dewardric L. McNeal, CNBC, 28 June 2026
  • Not the fun stuff — waving down at your antlike neighbors, chatting up green alien dudes — but the dicey stuff like zero gravity and sound and communication distortions?
    Randy McMullen, Mercury News, 25 June 2026
Noun
  • But the fastest swimming speed claims are almost certainly indefensible exaggerations.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 22 June 2026
  • Historians, strategists, and analysts are brought in to give some context, particularly for the question of how much these impressions influence voters — do these performances merge with their targets’ public personas, turning comic exaggerations into liabilities?
    Jason Bailey, Vulture, 27 May 2026
Noun
  • Meta has countered that Wynn-Williams violated her agreement and wrote a book filled with inaccuracies.
    Barbara Ortutay, Los Angeles Times, 26 June 2026
  • Datasets with issues like poor formatting, inaccuracies, inconsistencies, biases and duplicates are inherently bad.
    Imran Aftab, Forbes.com, 25 June 2026
Noun
  • An agent can’t reliably detect its own misinterpretations using the same model that generated them.
    Stu Sjouwerman, Forbes.com, 25 June 2026
  • Beatty said those early misinterpretations frequently determine what evidence exists later.
    Stephen Martin, Oklahoma Watch, 13 Jan. 2026
Noun
  • The idea is to allow for accidents, miscommunications or misunderstandings that the participants agree should not scuttle talks.
    ABC News, ABC News, 1 July 2026
  • Starting to collaborate early, and maintaining collaboration throughout every phase of the campaign process, is how teams can move away from working in siloes and decrease the chances of misunderstandings.
    Kamya Elawadhi, Forbes.com, 1 July 2026

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“Misrepresentations.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/misrepresentations. Accessed 5 Jul. 2026.

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