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Definition of misdirection
1 : a wrong direction
2a : the act or an instance of misdirecting or divertingb : the state of being misdirected
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Recent Examples of misdirection from the Web
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And then, of course, came the unthinkable bit of misdirection: Rousey lost.
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Stranger danger for Internet news The problem is that most people weren't raised to expect that their social spaces would be full of bots, blabbing the results of simple algorithms and infecting human conversations with misdirection.
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On Sunday, there was also some confusion – or misdirection – about what exactly the Senate bill would do.
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On Sunday, there was also some confusion - or misdirection - about what exactly the Senate bill would do.
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On Sunday, there was also some confusion — or misdirection — about what exactly the Senate bill would do.
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There are marble floors and escalators everywhere, and a massive catwalk to the adjacent Bonaventure Hotel that offers tempting misdirection.
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When our younger daughter, Beatrice, was in grade school, she was known to employ a nifty bit of misdirection.
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Who else can spin empathetic and relatable performances spanning emotions from humor to numbness, despair, joy, confusion and misdirection?
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