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- misconception
- misunderstanding
- misinterpretation
- misconstruction
- misreading
- misstatement
- misjudgment
- miscalculation
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On one side the KC Reparations Coalition is preparing to launch a six-month public education campaign and raise $50,000 for a documentary that will confront misconceptions about reparations.—
J.M. Banks
November 8,
Kansas City Star,
8 Nov. 2025 -
These common laundry misconceptions might be standing between you and your freshest laundry ever.—
Patricia Shannon,
Better Homes & Gardens,
8 Nov. 2025
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Mercury retrograde might bring a few tech glitches, scheduling delays, or misunderstandings among friends or team members.—
Dossé-Via Trenou,
Refinery29,
9 Nov. 2025
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Expect a few misunderstandings, but also second chances to speak honestly and listen with a fresh perspective.—
Valerie Mesa,
PEOPLE,
8 Nov. 2025
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Instead of clarifying the path forward, the very words meant to unify teams sow misinterpretation, confusion, and drift.—
Andrea Belk Olson,
Harvard Business Review,
10 Nov. 2025
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Many women who have endured violence within Christian homes wish the church understood that silence, misinterpretation of Scripture, and misplaced calls for forgiveness can deepen trauma.—
Ed Gaskin,
Boston Herald,
19 Oct. 2025
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Counsel should try to foresee and prevent any misconstruction.—
Joshua Stein,
Forbes,
15 Mar. 2025
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Ohanian used his misconstruction of employment figures as the basis for a wide-ranging critique of California economic policy, mostly citing how the high cost of living drives people out of the state.—
Michael Hiltzik,
Los Angeles Times,
3 Dec. 2024
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However, that’s a misreading of the First Amendment, which prohibits government restrictions on free speech and does not apply to private companies.—
Todd Spangler,
Variety,
30 Sep. 2025
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Trump’s misreading of Russia has cost Ukraine.—
Jonathan Easley,
The Hill,
9 Sep. 2025
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One study — admittedly small and enabled by the hack of affair-arranging app Ashley Madison in 2015 — found that companies whose CEOs or CFOs were paying users of the site were twice as likely to have had a financial misstatement or involvement in a securities class action.—
Liz Hoffman,
semafor.com,
2 Sep. 2025
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So, this mass misstatement is no help to those erstwhile interstellar explorers.—
Don Lincoln,
Big Think,
29 Aug. 2025
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Torsten Sløk, chief economist at Apollo Global Management, said forecasts of an imminent slowdown have been repeatedly wrong, and the economics profession should start grappling with its track record of misjudgments.—
Nick Lichtenberg,
Fortune,
1 Oct. 2025
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More concerning for the Seahawks than Macdonald’s misjudgment was the fact that Charbonnet’s run wasn’t close to being successful.—
Michael-Shawn Dugar,
New York Times,
29 Sep. 2025
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The delay was a simple miscalculation, Chelsea Sanchez said in an email interview.—
Jim Riccioli,
jsonline.com,
7 Nov. 2025
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Any miscalculation would leave gaps in their search grid and potentially damage a $60,000 piece of equipment.—
Jamie Thompson,
The Atlantic,
6 Nov. 2025
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“Miscomprehension.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/miscomprehension. Accessed 14 Nov. 2025.
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