misapprehends

present tense third-person singular of misapprehend
as in misunderstands
to fail to understand the true or actual meaning of unfortunately, the message that the artist was trying to convey has been misapprehended by many museum patrons

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misunderstands
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  • Often in the past intelligence has been equated to technology, but to solely rely on technology as a measure of intelligence misunderstands what intelligence is.
    Keith Cooper, Space.com, 27 July 2026
  • This argument isn’t wrong, but fundamentally misunderstands that humans too are doing the same thing – recombining ideas is precisely what creates genuinely new ones.
    Michael Muthukrishna, Fortune, 23 July 2026
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“Misapprehends.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/misapprehends. Accessed 4 Aug. 2026.

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