as in to misstate
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Recent Examples of misspeak
Somebody could misspeak, a camera could be seen.
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Payton Turkeltaub,
Variety,
13 May 2026
The health secretary also appeared to misspeak at the meeting, saying two people had died of the disease.
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Devi Shastri and Amanda Seitz The Associated Press,
arkansasonline.com,
27 Feb. 2025
Kennedy also seemed to misspeak in saying two people had died of measles.
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Amanda Seitz,
Chicago Tribune,
26 Feb. 2025
These leaders don’t merely lie or misspeak or make light of life and death.
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Megan Garber,
The Atlantic,
23 Oct. 2024
The Kremlin’s propaganda often uses instances of Biden misspeaking as proof of his ineptitude as the man in charge of Ukraine’s top military backer.
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Yuliya Talmazan,
NBC News,
12 July 2024
Payton Turkeltaub,
Variety,
13 May 2026
The health secretary also appeared to misspeak at the meeting, saying two people had died of the disease.
—
Devi Shastri and Amanda Seitz The Associated Press,
arkansasonline.com,
27 Feb. 2025
Kennedy also seemed to misspeak in saying two people had died of measles.
—
Amanda Seitz,
Chicago Tribune,
26 Feb. 2025
These leaders don’t merely lie or misspeak or make light of life and death.
—
Megan Garber,
The Atlantic,
23 Oct. 2024
The Kremlin’s propaganda often uses instances of Biden misspeaking as proof of his ineptitude as the man in charge of Ukraine’s top military backer.
—
Yuliya Talmazan,
NBC News,
12 July 2024
Recent Examples of Synonyms for misspeak
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An earlier version misstated the date.
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Correction, June 25 The original version of this story misstated Treseder's title.
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Trump had campaigned on restricting birthright citizenship, arguing that the citizenship clause had been misinterpreted, and attended the April 2026 oral arguments in a first for a sitting president.
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Managers often misinterpret Gen Z's workplace preferences, viewing their requests as entitlement rather than practical needs shaped by their upbringing.
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Alumni contend the investigation is politically motivated and misrepresents the law, aiming to undermine Yale's commitment to diversity.
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While there is certainly a problem with the ubiquity of politicians and business leaders of advanced age, Moyn misrepresents older people and offers solutions that are discriminatory against them.
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Slow-motion replays and still images distort the offending player’s actions, with innocuous tackles looking more serious.
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Any whack job with a phone can distort reality, and that’s not helpful.
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SecNav’s just a big fan, and that message got garbled in a chain-of-command game of telephone.
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Data-poisoning tools like Nightshade, which can garble some AI outputs, may be a more effective solution for concerned artists.
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Perhaps that last claim feels overblown, but movies indisputably falsify reality, presenting a world that seems hypervivid for a few hours but vanishes when the lights come up.
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Yet under the Third Circuit’s rule, a taxpayer may remain vulnerable long after records have disappeared and witnesses are unavailable, if a preparer intentionally falsified a return.
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Yet many of us will do it anyway, whether to get a break from cooking a meal at home or as a way to spend time with friends and family.
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If timing varies, start the longer-cooking veggies first, then add the quicker-cooking veggies.
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Instead, whole grains and foods are dissembled into molecules which, with the help of artificial colorings, flavorings and gluelike emulsifiers, are heated, pounded, shaped or extruded into any food a manufacturer can dream up.
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When McKenzie asks him how much he’s contributed to the coffers of politicians, his dodging of the question is pure dissembling theater.
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“Misspeak.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/misspeak. Accessed 7 Jul. 2026.
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