How to Use misperception in a Sentence

misperception

noun

• There’s this misperception that the South is the most racist place.
  — NBC News, 31 Jan. 2022
• City leaders have said that there is a misperception of the role of police in schools.
  — Washington Post, 2 Apr. 2022
• Yule said a common misperception is that the county pays for the food.
  — Julie Gallant, San Diego Union-Tribune, 1 Apr. 2025
• Yet the misperception persists that older adults are frail and weak.
  — Paul Nash, The Conversation, 15 June 2020
• And can misperceptions about resilience hurt people, rather than help?
  — Rachel Goldsmith Turow, Discover Magazine, 8 Jan. 2024
• The main goal for Refugeoly is to help to change our misperception about refugees.
  — Lisa Deaderick, San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 Sep. 2025
• There’s a misperception about banking, and people have a narrow view of it.
  — Fortune, 3 Mar. 2023
• Did any of the gaps in misperception of climate-policy support stand out to you?
  — Robin Lloyd, Scientific American, 23 Aug. 2022
• In this case, the misperception would result in worse performance.
  — Ncbi Rofl, Discover Magazine, 10 Apr. 2012
• There is a common misperception that paying for something entitles one to be rude about it.
  — Jacobina Martin, Washington Post, 15 June 2022
• The misperception continues that risks from nature loss are for the future.
  — Nina Seega, Forbes, 21 Oct. 2024
• The results highlight some common misperceptions and show how the fire risk to humans is changing.
  — Seyd Teymoor Seydi, The Conversation, 21 Aug. 2025
• Richards chuckled when talking about the misperception that all blacksmiths make horseshoes.
  — Beth Mlady, cleveland, 21 July 2023
• There’s a misperception, however, that tennis isn’t a good movie sport because there haven’t been that many great tennis movies.
  — Joe Reid, Vulture, 26 Aug. 2022
• There’s a misperception, however, that tennis isn’t a good movie sport because there haven’t been that many great tennis movies.
  — Joe Reid, Vulture, 29 Aug. 2025
• So there’s a huge amount of misperceptions that fuel a lot of this, and fixing that does actually make people take a step back.
  — Isaac Chotiner, New Yorker, 15 Sep. 2025
• Even among locals, there’s a misperception for how dangerous the area is, Freedman said.
  — Alex Sherman, CNBC, 13 Aug. 2024
• These are books filled with images of disconnection and misperception.
  — Lidija Haas, Harper's Magazine, 3 Mar. 2025
• Any such misperception would be harmful to this institution and our country.
  — Phillip M. Bailey, USA TODAY, 1 July 2023
• To try and cope with this misperception, the law seeks to ensure that appropriate cautions and warnings are displayed to users.
  — Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 8 Sep. 2025
• People who care about these issues shouldn’t look at those protests and immediately condemn them out of a misperception of what protest means.
  — Lisa Deaderick, San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 June 2022
• Betty is handled throughout the story, and there’s so much misperception about what’s really going on with her.
  — Jackie Strause, The Hollywood Reporter, 1 June 2023
• But there is this misperception, which is the second half of the question, that Qatar is picking actors in the region to stand for something.
  — Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 12 Dec. 2022
• Ashley said among misperceptions people have is assuming adult children living with them can no longer be claimed as dependents.
  — Francine Knowles, Chicago Tribune, 16 Mar. 2026
• Overall, women’s misperceptions of their own risk may hold them back from getting a doctor to check out possible symptoms of a heart attack or stroke.
  — Amy Huebschmann, Discover Magazine, 24 Oct. 2024
• These misperceptions lead to confusion and help explain the program’s fiscal issues.
  — Editorial, Boston Herald, 15 Aug. 2025
• This is a step in the right direction to reducing the risks of misperception and miscalculation.
  — Timothy H.j. Nerozzi Fox News, Fox News, 25 Sep. 2024
• This misperception that the beach is safe introduced as big a misconception and falsehood on the public, as the idea that sharks are all dangerous.
  — Chris Pepin-Neff, Scientific American, 26 May 2025
• That is the only way to clear up misperceptions, to signal, to communicate, and to work together where and when our interests align.
  — CBS News, 17 June 2023
• For all their strides, women still work to overcome misperceptions about their physical abilities – and lack of access to high-level coaching jobs.
  — Ira Porter, The Christian Science Monitor, 31 July 2024