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as in to misrepresent
to change so much as to create a wrong impression or alter the meaning of
taking that statement completely out of context essentially falsifies it, whether that's your intention or not
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as in to refute
to prove to be false
telephone records falsified his claim that he wasn't home that night
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Recent Examples of falsify
Testimony was heard, evidence was introduced, a verdict was reached: guilty on all thirty-four counts of falsifying business records in the first degree, as part of a scheme to suppress damaging evidence from becoming public during his first Presidential campaign.
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Eric Lach, The New Yorker, 10 Jan. 2025
The Manhattan jury who decided the case found Trump guilty of 34 felony counts of falsifying business records on May 30, for which he was supposed to be sentenced on July 11.
—Molly Crane-Newman, New York Daily News, 10 Jan. 2025
Trump was charged and convicted of felonies, not just misdemeanors, because the jury determined Trump was falsifying the records to conceal or commit another crime.
—Aysha Bagchi, USA TODAY, 10 Jan. 2025
Trump was convicted in May on 34 counts of falsifying business records.
—Andrew Torgan, CNN, 12 Jan. 2025
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Eric Lach, The New Yorker, 10 Jan. 2025
The Manhattan jury who decided the case found Trump guilty of 34 felony counts of falsifying business records on May 30, for which he was supposed to be sentenced on July 11.
—Molly Crane-Newman, New York Daily News, 10 Jan. 2025
Trump was charged and convicted of felonies, not just misdemeanors, because the jury determined Trump was falsifying the records to conceal or commit another crime.
—Aysha Bagchi, USA TODAY, 10 Jan. 2025
Trump was convicted in May on 34 counts of falsifying business records.
—Andrew Torgan, CNN, 12 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for falsify
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The company will also be banned from misrepresenting loot box odds, prices, and features, and will need to allow users to buy them with money instead of in-game virtual currency.—
Will McCurdy,
PCMAG,
18 Jan. 2025
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Blake Lively was either severely misled by her team or intentionally and knowingly misrepresented the truth.—
Jack Smart,
People.com,
17 Jan. 2025
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The agency has since refuted the claim the couple was involved in its decision to separate from the actor.—
Mary Whitfill Roeloffs,
Forbes,
22 Jan. 2025
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News of the affidavit was first reported by NBC News, which reported that Samantha refuted many of the claims in the affidavit in a statement to NBC.—
Allison Pecorin,
ABC News,
21 Jan. 2025
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The movie, named after a popular 1950s song, evoked and distorted the midcentury suburban fantasy.—
Daniel Arkin,
NBC News,
16 Jan. 2025
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Trump, who pulled out of his own planned interview with CBS, had alleged CBS had distorted the interview to aid Harris.—
David Folkenflik,
NPR,
16 Jan. 2025
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“Falsify.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/falsify. Accessed 30 Jan. 2025.
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