as in misstatement
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Noun
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Counsel should try to foresee and prevent any misconstruction.—
Joshua Stein,
Forbes,
15 Mar. 2025 -
Counsel should try to foresee and prevent any misconstruction.—
Joshua Stein,
Forbes,
15 Mar. 2025
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However, no language in the treaty discusses climate change, causing opponents to criticize the Court of overreach and misinterpretation of the law.—
Jon McGowan,
Forbes.com,
27 May 2025
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Don’t leave room for misinterpretation—have the conversation in person.—
Julia Korn,
Forbes,
11 Mar. 2025
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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
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Biologists can afford to be flexible and imprecise when the stakes are merely a conversational misunderstanding.—
Alex Erwin,
The Conversation,
6 June 2025
Noun
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At the root of the underinvestment problem is a lingering misconception that women’s health is synonymous with reproductive health.—
Geri Stengel,
Forbes.com,
5 June 2025
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There seems to be a misconception among our political leaders that civic engagement is purely intuitive, that people fired up by a speech will somehow find their way to a city council meeting, a ballot initiative, a local organization’s strategy session.—
Adam Met,
Time,
3 June 2025
Noun
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Delays and miscalculations have pushed the delivery date back and increased the contract cost by billions.—
Kurt Snibbe,
Oc Register,
30 May 2025
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The United States and its partners fear that a nuclear-armed Iran could set off an atomic arms race in the Middle East and contribute to instability there, sharply raising the stakes for any miscalculation between rivals.—
Steven Erlanger,
New York Times,
17 May 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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“Misdescription.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/misdescription. Accessed 14 Jun. 2025.
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