How to Use misapply in a Sentence

misapply

verb

• Its benchmark report notes that even state-of-the-art tools can describe the right formula in words while misapplying it step by step.
  — Arkansas Online, 8 Jan. 2026
• One critic said the amendment has been misapplied, such as when it has been used to withhold the names of businesses where crimes occurred.
  — Daniel Bice, jsonline.com, 6 Aug. 2025
• The media coalition pushed back hard against those claims, arguing the defense is misapplying outdated law.
  — Michael Ruiz, FOXNews.com, 1 Feb. 2026
• But when integrity is neglected or misapplied, that same structure can become unstable, or even dangerous.
  — Mary Crossan, Forbes.com, 23 June 2026
• That's because, by law, the IRS is required to hold these returns longer, giving the agency longer to scan for fraud or misapplied tax credits.
  — Aimee Picchi, CBS News, 26 Jan. 2026
• Defense attorney Jason Driscoll argued the law was misapplied.
  — Jennifer Peltz, Fortune, 3 Oct. 2025
• Duchampian is one of those descriptors that’s both extremely specific and meaningless when misapplied to everything.
  — Nate Freeman, Vanity Fair, 24 Apr. 2026
• Detection engineering is one place where teams often misapply AI.
  — Bernard Brantley, Forbes.com, 20 July 2026
• According to Yale researchers, scientists tend to misapply the Golden Rule in two areas.
  — Ameya Paleja, Interesting Engineering, 10 July 2026
• Denials based on unwritten or misapplied rules or standards, or perhaps on subjective personal preferences, would be on unsound standing.
  — Nicole R. Kurtz, Miami Herald, 7 May 2026
• Not only were the rules misapplied, according to an expert referee with years of elite experience, but similar plays during this tournament have been ignored.
  — Ian Miller Outkick, FOXNews.com, 3 July 2026
• But when the tools are misapplied, performance can actually decline—underscoring that AI tends to work best when paired with human judgment.
  — Sheryl Estrada, Fortune, 6 Mar. 2026
• Ashely moved to vacate the district court's order on the basis that the district court had misapplied the Minnesota UPEPA.
  — Jay Adkisson, Forbes.com, 21 June 2026
• Sauer also argued the judge’s ruling misapplies the Fourth Amendment and flouts the Supreme Court’s recent decision clawing back universal injunctions.
  — Zach Schonfeld, The Hill, 7 Aug. 2025
• Those arguments formed the crux of his appeal, filed in July, in which his lawyers argued that James violated the statute of limitations, misapplied the relevant law, and encouraged an exclusive penalty.
  — Peter Charalambous, ABC News, 21 Aug. 2025
• The Administrative Exemption This is arguably the most complex and frequently misapplied exemption.
  — Matt Emma, AZCentral.com, 10 Feb. 2026
• Some legal analysts also criticized Middlebrooks’ ruling, arguing that the judge misapplied Florida’s consumer protection law.
  — Trevor Bach, Dallas Morning News, 23 Mar. 2026
• Without adjusting, companies will misapply probabilistic tools to deterministic problems and misinterpret their outcomes.
  — Richie Etwaru, Forbes.com, 10 Sep. 2025
• What To Know Trump has sought to roll back protections granted under President Joe Biden to hundreds of thousands of Venezuelans and Haitians, arguing the law was misapplied.
  — Anna Commander, MSNBC Newsweek, 3 Oct. 2025
• This decision fundamentally misapplies the substantial similarity doctrine in ways that threaten creators across every medium and is particularly concerning in the age of AI.
  — Dominic Patten, Deadline, 3 Jan. 2026
• Karen Kay Hogan, 69, pleaded guilty to a charge of misapplying more than $300,000 of financial property and a charge of exploitation of children, according to Kendall County officials.
  — Ricardo Delgado, San Antonio Express-News, 24 Mar. 2026
• Carro, in September, dismissed terrorism charges after finding Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s office had misapplied a statute enacted in the wake of 9/11.
  — Molly Crane-Newman, New York Daily News, 6 Feb. 2026
• Mangione’s lawyers also managed to get the top counts tossed from his state case, with Justice Gregory Carro, in September, dismissing terrorism offenses and finding Bragg’s office has misapplied a statute enacted in the wake of the 9/11 terror attacks.
  — Molly Crane-Newman, New York Daily News, 1 Apr. 2026
• If recessions are episodic and random, then contractionary fiscal or monetary policy during a downturn — the kind of austerity attempted in Britain’s 1847 financial crisis and catastrophically misapplied during the Great Depression—is almost certain to make things worse.
  — Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 9 May 2026