How To Use Misstatement In A Sentence
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Geoff Nunberg has a post at Language Log on the word gingerly: a NY Times story on Falluja included the statement "it was a gingerly first step," which pleased him by its proper use of gingerly as an adjective thanks to Tim May for catching my original misstatement!
Languagehat.com: GINGER(LY).
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Some of this will involve zinging the president for misstatements he made or knocking him for other similar missteps.
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Yet the face-to-face confrontations - scowls, barbs and factual misstatements included - provide Americans their most unvarnished glimpses at the man they will elect commander in chief.
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That is why we jib slightly the description of this case as a negligent misstatement case.
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Their intention has been to wait for the final proofs of their articles before correcting the intentional misstatements.
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Financial fraud is a conscious companies reporting accounting misstatements, false falsification of accounting surplus of conduct.
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He finally corrected his misstatement and offered to reduce the fee.
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Romney backers have called the flubs simple misstatements, not an indicator that Romney doesn't care about the economic woes of ordinary Americans.
NYDN Rss
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While this booklet has become an official source of information, it is filled with misstatements of fact.
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It's been going on for a couple of cycles now, and it was designed to be - is designed to be both an antidote to the misstatements that the candidates say during the debate, but also it's supposed to be an antidote to spin.
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However, because her expertise is clearly not in photography, her commentary includes some significant misstatements and unclarities that require correction.
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He finally corrected his misstatement and offered to reduce the fee.
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Both men repeated misstatements made in earlier debates, and added a few new ones.
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Once a commentator commits a major rhetorical gaffe or colossal misstatement of fact, it becomes impossible to take them seriously.
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While this booklet has become an official source of information, it is filled with misstatements of fact.
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Before an audience of people who supposedly spend their days pursuing the truth, he joked about misstatements (if not lies) he had used to persuade (if not hornswoggle) the American people and the media.
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Southern Oregon Indian Center, asked Coiner to publicly apologize for misstatements made at the Pottsville pow-wow, where his wedding — the occasion for the newspaper story — took place.
Cordoves, Joaquin
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With such a high media profile, it's remarkable how little attention is paid to Will's double standards, ethical lapses and misstatements.
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This argument is based on a number of misstatements and misconceptions.
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It must be regretted that no indication in his book, so far as it professes to deal with facts and with [190] persons not within the circle of his clients, would justify a belief that its wanton misstatements have filtrated through a mind entitled to declare, with the authority of self-consciousness, what a gentleman would or would not do under given circumstances.
West Indian Fables by James Anthony Froude Explained by J. J. Thomas
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Yet he manages to encapsulate his misunderstandings into bite-sized pieces that can be digested and turned into new misstatements by other entertainment writers as well.
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Rather than simply have people discuss or debate the latest political spat with no resolution, we check the facts, assess the accusations and by the end of the segment we declare a loser -- the candidate who, on that day, is "guiltier" of more misstatements, cheap shots, and blunders.
Dan Abrams: Introducing...Verdict
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Yet error in all its forms - from misstatements to imprudent acts - can and should serve a healthy role in personal development.
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If these paragraphs are representative, however, the article as a whole should contain, by conservative extrapolation, approximately 94 other serious distortions and misstatements of fact.
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Arizona Attorney General Terry Goddard -- who is running as the Democratic nominee to unseat the Republican governor in November -- didn't hold back in seizing upon the apparent "beheaded" bodies misstatement.
Jan Brewer's 'Beheaded' Bodies Claim Disputed By Local Law Enforcement Agencies
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I wish to correct my earlier misstatement.
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I caught that too. jukebox is a real stickler and pedant when it suits him; but truly elastic when it comes to his own dishonest misstatements.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Our Own Randy Barnett Talks to Prof. Glenn Reynolds (InstaPundit) About Whether ObamaCare Is Constitutional
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While this booklet has become an official source of information, it is filled with misstatements of fact.
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He finally corrected his misstatement and offered to reduce the fee.
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It's true that perjury charges can in some cases amount to ‘gotchas’, prosecutions brought for minor misstatements or possible lapses of memory.
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He doesn't allow partisanship to affect the main body of his work on international trade and monetary policy; he confines his misstatements to areas he doesn't know much about, like energy economics.
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Earnestly information collecting, sorting and submit, do not significant information, omission, material misstatement.
