My father mistakes it for the verb to bray, like a donkey.
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Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
17 Oct. 2025
The film looks like a million bucks, has a high pedigree of talent, and mistakes constant poking for conversation, endless buzzwords for a buffet of food for thought, incendiary hypotheticals for insight.
Home designer Allisa Jacobs wrote in a blog post that AI routinely misjudges the proportions and sizes of rooms and furniture, suggesting pieces that wouldn’t realistically fit in the space.
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Reed Albergotti,
semafor.com,
1 Oct. 2025
But the Fed just kind of misjudges what's going on and pushes too hard on interest rates and pushes the economy in.
Gentleman thief Sir Charles Lytton (David Niven) circles the prize while Inspector Jacques Clouseau (Peter Sellers) bungles the pursuit with sublime obliviousness.
Freddy, through Jesse, antagonizes and murders a lot of men.
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Mike Ryan,
IndieWire,
31 Oct. 2025
He was convicted and sentenced to 14 years in prison, but his guilt came into question in 1982 when investigators connected the Locci and Lo Bianco murders to the 1974, 1981, and 1982 slayings.
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Randall Colburn,
Entertainment Weekly,
22 Oct. 2025
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