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misleading

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verb

present participle of mislead

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of misleading
Verb
Follow reputable fact-checking accounts on social media There's a lot of misleading information online, especially around breaking news stories. Melissa Mahtani, CBS News, 8 Jan. 2025 But users with differing political viewpoints have to agree on a fact-check before it is publicly appended to a post, which means that misleading posts about politically divisive subjects often go unchecked. Kate Conger, New York Times, 7 Jan. 2025 The company created what has become a standard for how tech platforms limit the spread of falsehoods and misleading information. Shannon Bond, NPR, 7 Jan. 2025 The update is a response to reports that the summaries gave users misleading information about world events. Ars Technica, 7 Jan. 2025 CISOs have been investigated and, in some cases, charged with misleading investors. Jonathan Gill, Forbes, 7 Jan. 2025 Registration of a mark prevents competitors from copying or making misleading imitations of one's brand, helping customers recognize and feel confident about their products. Tammy Sons, Forbes, 4 Dec. 2024 She’s accused of misleading the Greenbrae resident into paying large amounts of money to couriers who were sent to her home. Cameron MacDonald, The Mercury News, 4 Dec. 2024 Makary has lamented how drugmakers used misleading data to urge doctors to prescribe OxyContin and other opioids as low-risk, non-addictive pain relievers. Matthew Perrone and Amanda Seitz, Los Angeles Times, 23 Nov. 2024
Recent Examples of Synonyms for misleading
Adjective
  • Doing so could constitute a deceptive trade practice, and the Colorado Attorney General’s Office or local district attorneys could then investigate to determine the cause of the price hike.
    Seth Klamann, The Denver Post, 20 Jan. 2025
  • The 81-page federal complaint charging Universal Music Group with defamation, harassment and payola (deceptive business practices) is a page-turner that seems penned more for press and public consumption (and perhaps label renegotiation) than judicial inspection.
    Bill Hochberg, Forbes, 17 Jan. 2025
Verb
  • Arizona's temperature can be deceiving and deadly.
    Shelby Slade, The Arizona Republic, 2 Jan. 2025
  • In July, Boeing agreed to plead guilty to conspiracy to commit fraud for deceiving the Federal Aviation Administration regulators who approved the 737 Max.
    Paul Wiseman, Chicago Tribune, 30 Dec. 2024
Adjective
  • Of note: Your Content must not be false, defamatory, misleading or hateful, or infringe any copyright or any other third-party rights or otherwise be unlawful.
    New York Times, New York Times, 19 Jan. 2025
  • But instead of mounting a defense of free speech against a lawsuit and Trump’s accusations that the network said were false and completely without merit, Paramount is considering following the example of Disney and tech oligarchs who will line up at the inauguration like Mark Zuckerberg.
    Richard Lawler, The Verge, 18 Jan. 2025
Verb
  • Liverpool are regularly seeing apps that replicate the appearance of genuine tickets — fooling not just first-time visitors to Anfield.
    James Pearce, The Athletic, 2 Jan. 2025
  • The ultimate aim is, with the use of multiple layers of such transformations, fooling malware classifiers into thinking malicious code is, in fact, totally benign.
    Davey Winder, Forbes, 24 Dec. 2024

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“Misleading.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/misleading. Accessed 31 Jan. 2025.

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