as in misunderstanding
a failure to understand correctly
there are several words in English that are the result of the common misconstruing of singular forms as plurals
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as in missing
to fail to understand the true or actual meaning of
claimed that the press had misconstrued her comments
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misunderstanding
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That misunderstanding was corrected in short order and chalked up to a learning experience.—
Jake Goodrick,
Sacbee.com,
8 June 2025 -
Biologists can afford to be flexible and imprecise when the stakes are merely a conversational misunderstanding.—
Alex Erwin,
The Conversation,
6 June 2025
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“Misconstruing.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/misconstruing. Accessed 17 Jun. 2025.
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