How to Use misstate in a Sentence

misstate

verb
Definition of misstatenext
Synonyms for misstatenext
  • An article in yesterday's paper misstated the name of the district attorney.
  • The Guardian’s story dramatizes and misstates the facts of what occurred.
    — Lucy Diavolo, Teen Vogue, 25 Oct. 2019
  • Aside from failing to mention the storage fee, Aubrey appeared to misstate the amount of the loan Johnson would receive.
    — Paul Egan, Detroit Free Press, 30 July 2020
  • The article also misstated the amount of the rent threshold.
    — New York Times, 19 June 2019
  • Frank had alleged the firm misstated its profits and he was owed millions.
    — Greg Norman | Fox News, Fox News, 23 Oct. 2018
  • An article in Monday editions misstated the name of the trail in one instance.
    — oregonlive, 1 June 2020
  • An earlier version of this article misstated the year the unit was launched as 2016.
    — WSJ, 2 July 2018
  • Correction: An earlier version misstated the state the city of Grayson is in.
    — Chris Mayhew, Cincinnati.com, 8 Jan. 2018
  • This was misstated in the March 28 Politics & Ideas column.
    — WSJ, 30 Mar. 2018
  • Correction: The original version of this story misstated the name of the group that conducted the poll.
    — Jamie Ducharme, Time, 8 May 2018
  • Correction: June 29 The original version of this story misstated the name of the reporter who sent the viral tweet.
    — Billy Perrigo, Time, 29 June 2018
  • This piece originally misstated the name of the Jodie Foster movie Taxi Driver.
    — Nina Burleigh, The New Republic, 17 Mar. 2023
  • An early version of this story misstated David Norris' time this year at Bird Ridge.
    — Beth Bragg, Anchorage Daily News, 2 July 2018
  • The article also misstates the name of a museum that has exhibited the works of the artist Aliza Nisenbaum.
    — New York Times, 30 Apr. 2023
  • The Facebook post examined here as well as several others misstate the victim's name and age.
    — Bayliss Wagner, USA TODAY, 21 Apr. 2021
  • The original version of this story also misstated the size of the Marine Corps compared to the other branches.
    — Flora Carr, Time, 12 Apr. 2018
  • The update also corrects an earlier version that misstated the name of her law school.
    — Michael Sebastian, Cosmopolitan, 6 Mar. 2018
  • Trump has also been misstating basic facts about the US military mission in the Middle East.
    — Brian Stelter, CNN, 21 Oct. 2019
  • The article originally misstated that the performance of the late rock star Prince at the 2018 Super Bowl was a hologram.
    — National Geographic, 5 Nov. 2019
  • An earlier version of this story misstated the first name of a zoo bird ecologist.
    — Michael E. Ruane, Washington Post, 22 Feb. 2023
  • The original version of this story misstated the title of Kanti Patel, front desk clerk at the Budget Inn.
    — John Sowell, idahostatesman, 25 Oct. 2017
  • This story originally misstated how much plastic ends up in the oceans each year.
    — Sharon Lerner, ProPublica, 23 Feb. 2023
  • The original story also misstated the number of Jews polled in an E.U. survey.
    — Time Staff, TIME.com, 11 July 2019
  • An earlier version misstated the year of the 9/11 terror attacks.
    — The Christian Science Monitor, 4 Mar. 2019
  • An earlier version of this piece misstated the number of people on Ashley’s team.
    — Gaby Del Valle, Vox, 2 Nov. 2018
  • Correction: An earlier version of this story misstated the age of the tall ship Elissa.
    — Marie Simoneaux, NOLA.com, 22 Oct. 2017
  • The ad, which ran in March 1960, misstated the number of times King was arrested and flubbed the description of how the police were deployed to contain civil rights protestors.
    — Wired, 18 Oct. 2019
  • Correction: An earlier version of this story misstated the gender of the person killed in a crash on Colonial Drive.
    — Cristóbal Reyes, orlandosentinel.com, 3 July 2019
  • Video provided by Newsy Newslook Editor's note: An earlier version of this story misstated the location of the gym and also the name of the paper in which the ad was placed.
    — Brandon Patterson, Detroit Free Press, 8 Feb. 2018
  • An earlier version of this story misstated the number of people who work in the service industry in the United States.
    — Danielle Abril, Washington Post, 25 May 2023

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