misadjust

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for misadjust
Verb
  • Each has a private patio, but they are slightly raised off the ground, and much less ideal for the mobility impaired.
    Maya Kachroo-Levine, Travel + Leisure, 18 Apr. 2025
  • In particular, smoking, vaping, drinking alcohol, skipping sleep, using recreational drugs (like marijuana), and downing a ton of sugar may all contribute to an excess of those free-wheeling free radicals and impair your body’s ability to defend against them.
    Erica Sloan, SELF, 18 Apr. 2025
Verb
  • Mineral extraction has damaging social consequences in developing countries, where the impoverished are often compelled to work in unsafe and unhygienic conditions.
    Foreign Affairs, Foreign Affairs, 22 Apr. 2025
  • Arson – To unlawfully and intentionally damage or attempt to damage any real or personal property of another person or entity by fire or incendiary device.
    Baltimore Sun staff, Baltimore Sun, 22 Apr. 2025
Verb
  • The missing juveniles returned home shortly thereafter, having not been kidnapped or harmed.
    Justin Muszynski, Hartford Courant, 23 Apr. 2025
  • While wind energy projects have faced fierce opposition in several counties — anti-wind advocates often rely on misinformation to argue that turbines harm wildlife and threaten human health — the industry is popular on the whole.
    Benji Jones, Vox, 22 Apr. 2025
Verb
  • Eleven people were killed and at least 20 more hurt in a , police said Sunday.
    Joseph Wilkinson, New York Daily News, 27 Apr. 2025
  • Self-righteousness shrouds our refusal to let hurt fade from recall.
    Bryan Robinson, Forbes.com, 26 Apr. 2025
Verb
  • Memorial at Florida State University after a fatal shooting killed two people and injured several others.
    Kati Weis, CBS News, 20 Apr. 2025
  • The spill killed 11 people and injured 17 others as 210 million gallons of crude oil were released into the Gulf of Mexico (recently renamed by the U.S. government as Gulf of America) for a total of 87 days.
    Terry Collins, USA Today, 20 Apr. 2025
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“Misadjust.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/misadjust. Accessed 1 May. 2025.

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