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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
Having been found guilty last May of 34 felony counts of falsifying business records, Mr. Trump pushed to have the case dismissed or delayed.
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Henry Gass, The Christian Science Monitor, 10 Jan. 2025
The jury’s May 30 verdict found Trump, 78, guilty of 34 felony counts of falsifying business records stemming from a scheme to hide embarrassing details about his past from voters.
—Molly Crane-Newman, New York Daily News, 10 Jan. 2025
New York prosecutors objected to any further delay of the sentencing hearing, which has now been scheduled four times since Trump's conviction on 34 felony counts of falsifying business records.
—Graham Kates, CBS News, 9 Jan. 2025
Trump was convicted in May of 34 counts of falsifying business records.
—Bart Jansen, USA TODAY, 8 Jan. 2025
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Henry Gass, The Christian Science Monitor, 10 Jan. 2025
The jury’s May 30 verdict found Trump, 78, guilty of 34 felony counts of falsifying business records stemming from a scheme to hide embarrassing details about his past from voters.
—Molly Crane-Newman, New York Daily News, 10 Jan. 2025
New York prosecutors objected to any further delay of the sentencing hearing, which has now been scheduled four times since Trump's conviction on 34 felony counts of falsifying business records.
—Graham Kates, CBS News, 9 Jan. 2025
Trump was convicted in May of 34 counts of falsifying business records.
—Bart Jansen, USA TODAY, 8 Jan. 2025
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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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Lori Robertson, director of the nonpartisan website FactCheck.org, which also partnered with Meta, also refuted Zuckerberg's notion that fact-checking contributed to a suppression of opinion.Kate Gibson, CBS News, 8 Jan. 2025
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In 2011, his former Minister of Justice directly refuted the previous statements, claiming that Gaddafi directly ordered the bombing.Proma Khosla, IndieWire, 6 Jan. 2025
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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
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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
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“Falsify.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/falsify. Accessed 21 Jan. 2025.
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