How to Use get (someone or something) wrong in a Sentence

get (someone or something) wrong

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  • This one is easy to get wrong, even when your heart’s in the right place.
    Anna Funk, Discover Magazine, 18 Apr. 2020
  • But—and here’s the thing even many experts get wrong—quantum physics doesn’t say that.
    Chris Ferrie, Scientific American, 13 Feb. 2023
  • Is there anything fans seem to get wrong about you or your character?
    James Hibberd, The Hollywood Reporter, 1 Sep. 2022
  • In all the mythology, what do people still get wrong about them?
    Miles Klee, Rolling Stone, 23 June 2024
  • What do the creators of that series get wrong with her on-screen persona?
    Washington Post, 20 Apr. 2022
  • Here’s our list of 10 things that any high-end property could get wrong.
    Jonathan Soroff, Robb Report, 8 Feb. 2024
  • But one thing that a lot of people get wrong about roaches is that they’re only drawn to messy homes.
    Brittany Anas, House Beautiful, 22 Aug. 2023
  • What’s one thing about being a strong Black woman people get wrong?
    WIRED, 27 Feb. 2023
  • That is the one that companies get wrong more than 50 percent of the time.
    Neil Senturia, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 July 2022
  • Contemplate what the philosophers get wrong about the nature of time.
    Cora Frazier, The New Yorker, 22 July 2024
  • What do people most get wrong when talking about reparations?
    Brea Baker, ELLE, 17 June 2021
  • It is designed in a way that is very limited and limiting and very easy to get wrong.
    Tax Notes Staff, Forbes, 14 Feb. 2023
  • Of course, these are specialist things that lay people might easily get wrong.
    Elizabeth Waddington, Treehugger, 8 June 2023
  • Lahser Here's another metro Detroit street name that a lot of people get wrong.
    Brian Manzullo, Detroit Free Press, 18 June 2020
  • What people get wrong is that ExxonMobil doesn’t have any control over this.
    Robert Rapier, Forbes, 13 June 2022
  • These brie bites are fresh-out-of-the-oven comfort food at its finest, both sweet and savory, and pretty difficult to get wrong.
    Kylie Logan, Fortune, 24 Nov. 2021
  • Perfect for potlucks and practically required at picnics, this recipe is simple to make and hard to get wrong.
    Southern Living Test Kitchen, Southern Living, 25 Nov. 2023
  • What do a lot of marketers and brands get wrong about marketing to the Hispanic consumer?
    Megan Poinski, Forbes, 9 Oct. 2024
  • Perfect for potlucks and practically required at picnics, this dessert recipe is simple to make and hard to get wrong.
    Southern Living Test Kitchen, Southern Living, 25 Nov. 2023
  • There’s so many things to get wrong, from hard-boiling them without getting a green ring to peeling them without ripping out chunks of egg white.
    Josh Miller, Southern Living, 29 Mar. 2025
  • What did John Dorsey get wrong in his evaluation of Mayfield?
    Dan Labbe, cleveland, 6 July 2022
  • Our colleague Philip Bump has written about what Oz seems to get wrong about the cost of the goods in the grocery store.
    Emily Heil, Washington Post, 15 Aug. 2022
  • But predicting who will be summoned to Stockholm and win the accolades, which are announced next week, is easy to get wrong.
    Katie Hunt, CNN, 2 Oct. 2020
  • There’s a lot that people—including health care professionals—get wrong about the connection.
    Erica Sloan, SELF, 26 Mar. 2025
  • Yes, other stocks might seem to have better prospects, but over the long-term forecasting revenue and earnings growth is challenging as easy to get wrong.
    Simon Moore, Forbes, 28 Dec. 2021
  • But possibly just as important is when scientists get something wrong, badly, and somebody sets the record straight.
    Joshua Sokol, New York Times, 21 Feb. 2023
  • And what does Washington get wrong about China’s intentions to remake the world order?
    Kevin Rudd, Foreign Affairs, 18 Aug. 2022
  • However, unlike the staple shirt (which is hard to get wrong in the design department), not all white sneakers are created equal.
    Claire Harmeyer, PEOPLE.com, 22 Feb. 2022
  • What does the diversity recruitment approach get wrong about reform or change in policing and police culture?
    Simon Montlake, The Christian Science Monitor, 2 May 2024
  • What do people get wrong about the post-9/11 landscape for Arab and Muslim Americans?
    Brandon Tensley, CNN, 9 Sep. 2021

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