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Examples of misread in a Sentence
I guess I misread the instructions.
They have misread the lessons of the past.
Politicians may have misread the mood of the public.
I badly misread the situation.
Recent Examples of misread from the Web
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The dissenting judges said Gregory misread Kennedy's opinion.
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Some California Republicans have stuck close to Mr. Trump, asserting that Democrats were misreading the landscape.
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The dissenting judges said Gregory misread Kennedy’s opinion.
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Cohen did not name countries that might be hard hit by systems that misread the start of 2000 as 1900 because of an old computer practice of recognizing only the last two digits of a year.
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First Known Use of misread
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MISREAD Defined for English Language Learners
misread
playDefinition of misread for English Language Learners
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: to read (something) incorrectly
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: to understand (something) incorrectly
MISREAD Defined for Kids
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playDefinition of misread for Students
misread
\-ˈred\;misreading
\-ˈrēd-ing\1 : to incorrectly pronounce or understand something written
2 : misunderstand He misread the emotion on her face.
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