Example Sentences

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She insisted that accounts of the incident had been misleading and suggested the decision to explode the fireworks was not rushed and that officers had spent many hours formulating a plan.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 14, 2023

The independent adviser Laurie Magnus found that Zahawi had been misleading when he said that reports last July over his tax affairs were "clearly smears".

From Reuters • Jan. 29, 2023

But Mrs Norton said the Army had been "misleading" in its response to the coroner about its handling of service complaints.

From BBC • Apr. 15, 2022

By that time, she added, she had begun to suspect that Avenatti had been misleading her.

From Seattle Times • Jan. 27, 2022

By withholding what she knew of Hester's parentage, the newspaper accounts of the death of the French woman, had been misleading.

From Hester's Counterpart A Story of Boarding School Life by Jones, Adele W.