misspeak

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Recent Examples of misspeak These leaders don’t merely lie or misspeak or make light of life and death. Megan Garber, The Atlantic, 23 Oct. 2024 Walz was criticized following the Oct. 1 debate for flubbing an answer about allegedly misspeaking about being in Hong Kong during the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre. Joey Nolfi, EW.com, 21 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 Elsewhere, Claude and Angot’s mother, who had Christine out of wedlock and fought to get her father to recognize his child in a legal sense, are both similarly upbraided for misspeaking about Christine’s trauma in subtle ways, or for not being sympathetic in the right way. Leslie Felperin, The Hollywood Reporter, 22 Feb. 2024 People are just supposed to like you — you’re not supposed to misspeak, look fat, date the wrong person, have your makeup look a different color. Elias Leight, Rolling Stone, 12 Feb. 2022 Dear Annie: Here is another perspective on the hyperaccurate person who corrects everyone who misspeaks. Annie Lane, oregonlive, 19 May 2020 In interviews, some voters said Mr. Gantz reminded them of Yitzhak Rabin, who also could misspeak and appear embarrassed when facing the news media. David M. Halbfinger, New York Times, 24 Aug. 2019 The fact is that Donald Trump, as someone who misspeaks constantly, deliberately, through lack of knowledge, through lies, other kinds of problems, is the standard that whoever is the Democratic nominee is going to run against. NBC News, 1 Sep. 2019
Recent Examples of Synonyms for misspeak
Verb
  • Correction: Due to a reporting error, an earlier version of this story misstated the name of the hospital where Lindsay Clancy is being treated.
    John R. Ellement, BostonGlobe.com, 1 May 2023
  • An earlier version of this article misstated Emily Busch’s position.
    Chuck Todd, NBC News, 18 Apr. 2023
Verb
  • Grok, xAI's flagship model, has also repeatedly misinterpreted news stories and made up falsehoods in the past.
    Jibin Joseph, PCMAG, 7 Jan. 2025
  • Kirby Smart complained about the call afterward but seemed to misinterpret what being set over the ball meant.
    Pete Sampson, The Athletic, 4 Jan. 2025
Verb
  • Customers value authenticity, and misrepresenting your product can backfire.
    Mina Elias, Forbes, 6 Jan. 2025
  • But ultimately, the Lakota were left voiceless and misrepresented.
    Eli Wizevich, Smithsonian Magazine, 29 Dec. 2024
Verb
  • Those contracts are known as production assistance agreements, and the claim references – but also distorts – both the regulations that govern them and two news stories about celebrities whose agreements were approved.
    Joedy McCreary, USA TODAY, 9 Jan. 2025
  • The Klan distorted the use of undercover operatives and informants, much as some Trump supporters have over Jan. 6.
    Brittany Friedman / Made by History, TIME, 6 Jan. 2025
Verb
  • Those calls were sparked by the president’s poor debate performance against Trump on June 27, where Biden often garbled his words and lost his train of thought.
    Dan Mangan, CNBC, 12 July 2024
  • The idea may be, to garble Anna Karenina in a botlike way, that all plagiarisms are alike — but that obfuscates the idiosyncrasies of art and, indeed, of technology.
    Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 30 Sep. 2024
Verb
  • Trump was convicted in May on 34 counts of falsifying business records.
    Andrew Torgan, CNN, 12 Jan. 2025
  • What To Know After a weeks-long trial last year, a New York jury in May found Trump guilty on 34 counts of falsifying business records related to hush money paid to adult film actress Stormy Daniels shortly before his first presidential election in 2016.
    Daniel R. Depetris, Newsweek, 11 Jan. 2025
Verb
  • Think 180 opulent villas, world-class spa treatments, and immersive culinary experiences like cooking in the Sensory Herb Gardens.
    Meagan Drillinger, Travel + Leisure, 5 Jan. 2025
  • Season and cook chicken: When ready to use, season chicken: Drizzle chicken with 1 tablespoon olive oil, and sprinkle with one to two tablespoons seasoning blend and a pinch of lemon zest (optional) for every pound of chicken.
    Mary Claire Britton, Southern Living, 5 Jan. 2025
Verb
  • Putin’s constant lies and dissembling undermined his credibility to international interlocutors, such as President Emmanuel Macron of France.
    Lawrence D. Freedman, Foreign Affairs, 23 Sep. 2022
  • Pushing back on reporters, at the time Scher often dissembled and appeared to brush aside concerns about what was clearly an increasingly out-of-control situation.
    Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 19 July 2024

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“Misspeak.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/misspeak. Accessed 20 Jan. 2025.

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