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- misconception
- misunderstanding
- misinterpretation
- misconstruction
- misreading
- misstatement
- miscalculation
- misimpression
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Although the tide is turning (subscription required), there’s still a misconception that the trades are low-paying, dead-end jobs.—
Andrew Schaap,
Forbes.com,
8 Sep. 2025 -
What’s more in overturning Thompson’s theory, the team also debunked another widespread misconception.—
Georgina Jedikovska,
Interesting Engineering,
5 Sep. 2025
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Beyond clothing, Abrianna believes her size is what sparks so many misunderstandings.—
Ashley Vega,
People.com,
1 Sep. 2025
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That video campaign, which stems from a misunderstanding between Star and a British aid worker, draws on Nchogu’s own experiences as an aspiring filmmaker in East Africa.—
Christopher Vourlias,
Variety,
31 Aug. 2025
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The best communicators anticipate potential misinterpretations and tailor their messaging to foster trust.—
Expert Panel®,
Forbes.com,
2 Sep. 2025
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Press junkets came with loaded questions about his background, early websites were devoted to hating Jar Jar, and there were misinterpretations about the character's intentions.—
Jordan Hoffman,
EW.com,
13 July 2025
Noun
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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
Noun
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In Washington, Captain Olivia Walker (Rebecca Ferguson), gets his report and responds with concern but not alarm—the belief, at the beginning, is that somehow this is a misreading or a mistake.—
Stephanie Zacharek,
Time,
3 Sep. 2025
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Extreme heat in 2023 had damaged the quality of rice, causing an acute shortage last year that was exacerbated by the government’s misreading of supply and demand.—
Reuters,
CNN Money,
6 Aug. 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
Noun
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Beijing's forces have responded to Philippine challenges with blockades, ramming maneuvers, and water cannon, raising fears that a miscalculation could draw the United States into a conflict with its military rival.—
Micah McCartney,
MSNBC Newsweek,
4 Sep. 2025
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For Buffett, the split is a symbolic closing chapter on a rare investing miscalculation.—
Eva Roytburg,
Fortune,
3 Sep. 2025
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Revealing unverified or incomplete information could hurt investigations, prejudice prosecutions, violate privacy or create misimpressions, according to the agency.—
Bart Jansen,
USA TODAY,
5 June 2023
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For roughly four hours, the hearing played out as a fusillade of statistics, impressions and misimpressions, as Republicans argued that New York was a hellscape of unchecked violence and chaos — viral videos of which were shown on local news programs around the country to to prove it.—
Ginia Bellafante,
New York Times,
18 Apr. 2023
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“Miscomprehension.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/miscomprehension. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.
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