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- misstatement
- misconstruction
- misinterpretation
- misunderstanding
- misconception
- misjudgment
- misapprehension
- misreading
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The reference to the co-defendant's YOS sentence was mistakenly included in some communication out of our office based on a previous misstatement and was not part of the Governor's decision process.
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Lee Watson, in the email, said Burns never represented the board in the lawsuit and telling the court otherwise is a misstatement.
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Counsel should try to foresee and prevent any misconstruction.
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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.
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There’s been some willful misinterpretation by the media in response.
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An agent can’t reliably detect its own misinterpretations using the same model that generated them.
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Good relationships require patience, conflict, and misunderstanding.
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The gap between a compelling pilot and a reliable production system is becoming one of the most consequential misunderstandings in enterprise AI today.
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Attorney Al Watkins, who represented the McCloskeys during the early stages of the controversy, said one of the biggest misconceptions about the case is what triggered the confrontation in the first place.
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One of the misconceptions about work from home or hybrid is that the entire workforce can avail itself with such arrangements.
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Municipal utilities are largely unregulated, which makes misjudgments in purchasing power contracts a serious risk to local ratepayers.
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Aside from a misjudgment that led to Brighton’s equaliser last month, Danso has been excellent and a significant reason why Tottenham avoided the drop under the Italian.
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Meanwhile, the New Atheists were making hay of the fact that such faithful misapprehensions about nature were easily disproved by scientific discovery.
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After a decade or so of making various iterations of her table and shelf works, Bove began to tire of the recurring misapprehension that viewers need to read every book and explore in depth every reference on display in order to understand the work.
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What a misreading of the moment that was.
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But a person familiar with the US-Israel discussions said the gap reflects a deeper misreading on Israel’s part.
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“Misdescription.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/misdescription. Accessed 29 Jun. 2026.
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