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Example sentences for: mislead

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The Washington Post leads with testimony from last week's court hearing for Wen Ho Lee in which an FBI agent said that Lee went to unusual lengths to mislead his colleagues at Los Alamos about what he was doing when during nighttime and weekend sessions, he downloaded onto portable tapes the highly classified nuclear secrets to which he had access.
If a bizarre definition of sex could allow Clinton to mislead without falling into a perjury trap, he was not merely within his rights but perfectly justified.
In parallel with the roots of onomatopoeia (onoma `name' + poiein `to make or do') I have christened the effect onomatoplazia: onoma again + pladzein `to mislead or deceive.
The ruminative uh , which most people can faithfully reproduce, used to be spelled as unh , in an attempt to get in that glottal effect, but all it did was mislead youngsters into pronouncing an n where none was intended.
Therefore, when journalists present the court's decision to decline to review a case as "upholding" the lower court's decision, they mislead and confuse the public.