as in to miss
to fail to understand the true or actual meaning of
you misunderstood that poem because you took everything so literally
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Recent Examples of misunderstand
Requiring them to operate as ordinary MPIA applicants misunderstands their role and undermines their purpose.
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Vaughn Stewart, Baltimore Sun, 7 Mar. 2026
Treating Pahlavi as a shortcut to stability misunderstands both Iran’s society and the nature of this uprising.
—Jalil Pakray, Sun Sentinel, 3 Mar. 2026
Flight also suggests the report fundamentally misunderstands macroeconomic fundamentals.
—Allison Morrow, CNN Money, 2 Mar. 2026
But after just one weekend, that premature conclusion could misunderstand how franchise damage actually works.
—Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 2 Mar. 2026
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Vaughn Stewart, Baltimore Sun, 7 Mar. 2026
Treating Pahlavi as a shortcut to stability misunderstands both Iran’s society and the nature of this uprising.
—Jalil Pakray, Sun Sentinel, 3 Mar. 2026
Flight also suggests the report fundamentally misunderstands macroeconomic fundamentals.
—Allison Morrow, CNN Money, 2 Mar. 2026
But after just one weekend, that premature conclusion could misunderstand how franchise damage actually works.
—Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 2 Mar. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for misunderstand
Verb
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Kane did not play either of them, missing the Japan game as a precaution.—
Jack Pitt-Brooke,
New York Times,
1 Apr. 2026
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The Will County Sheriff's Office confirmed on Monday that more remains have been found in the same location where the bones of a missing man were discovered last week.—
Jeramie Bizzle,
CBS News,
31 Mar. 2026
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The market focuses on the median dot and often mistakes it for a plan, even though they are derived from 19 separate forecasts and not curated into a policy forecast by the committee.—
Steve Liesman,Matt Peterson,
CNBC,
27 Mar. 2026
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The result is, at best, a category error; at worst, a moral panic—mistaking architecture for art, and art for authority.—
Julian Rose,
Artforum,
26 Mar. 2026
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Johnston thinks the administration badly misread the situation from the start.—
Eva Roytburg,
Fortune,
24 Mar. 2026
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Rahm from the fairway went into a bunker, blasted out to just beyond 12 feet and misread his birdie putt.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
22 Mar. 2026
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The company’s current owners maintain its work has been misconstrued and that the charges against its former executives were unjustified.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
30 Mar. 2026
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According to The Hollywood Reporter, stars including Tom Brady, Gwyneth Paltrow, Kevin Costner, Alix Earle, Orlando Bloom, and Mark Wahlberg attended the starry celebration—and per sources, Alba and Burrow’s interaction may have been misconstrued.—
Lara Walsh,
InStyle,
9 Mar. 2026
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The economist argues the market is misinterpreting how the Fed will react to the current energy shock.—
Jake Angelo,
Fortune,
19 Mar. 2026
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Although uncommon, some public figures and health professionals have claimed that the vaccines could cause cancer despite ample contradictory evidence, often by misinterpreting or misrepresenting studies.—
Dannell D. Boatman,
The Conversation,
17 Mar. 2026
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That is true of leaders anywhere, but Israel’s history has predisposed some of its policymakers to focus excessively on day-to-day survival and to misapprehend or ignore strategic dynamics as a result.—
Andrew P. Miller,
Foreign Affairs,
5 Dec. 2025
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But would her students, turned on everywhere by the dogma of political correctness, misapprehend Haynes’s aim?—
Doreen St. Félix,
The New Yorker,
22 June 2023
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“Misunderstand.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/misunderstand. Accessed 1 Apr. 2026.
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