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Recent Examples of misdirected
Excessive and misdirected use of artificial light is more common in cities and can have a huge effect on the visibility of the night sky, particularly for those stargazers who are looking to observe faint deep sky objects with some of the best telescopes.
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Harry Bennett, Space.com, 11 Sep. 2025
In fast-moving scenarios, those assumptions can lead to delays in response or, worse, misdirected mitigation efforts.
—Craig Davies, Forbes.com, 22 Aug. 2025
Analysis and debate about the ongoing health-care crisis emphasize misdirected funding rather than considering how to revitalize the ethics of medicine.
—David Marks, The Orlando Sentinel, 8 Aug. 2025
Harry Bennett, Space.com, 11 Sep. 2025
In fast-moving scenarios, those assumptions can lead to delays in response or, worse, misdirected mitigation efforts.
—Craig Davies, Forbes.com, 22 Aug. 2025
Analysis and debate about the ongoing health-care crisis emphasize misdirected funding rather than considering how to revitalize the ethics of medicine.
—David Marks, The Orlando Sentinel, 8 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for misdirected
Adjective
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The misguided introduction of a $100,000 application fee could shut down the H-1B program entirely, since almost no firm would be willing to pay $100,000 to hire a worker who could quit at any time.—
Hugh Cameron,
MSNBC Newsweek,
24 Sep. 2025
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At least Lysenko was actually a scientist, albeit a misguided one.—
D. Scott Schmid,
Denver Post,
22 Sep. 2025
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Treatment is aggressive, relying on immunotherapy rather than chemotherapy, which is largely ineffective against melanoma.—
Jordan Greene,
PEOPLE,
23 Sep. 2025
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However, the law was repealed in 1974 for being unpopular and ineffective.—
Haadiza Ogwude,
Cincinnati Enquirer,
23 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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One careless click can expose your information.—
Kurt Knutsson,
FOXNews.com,
23 Sep. 2025
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Tom’s doomed desire for Vivien—and for her vanished twenty-first-century world—shows how people in the future may yearn for the past, though the past itself proves neglectful and careless of the future.—
Katy Waldman,
New Yorker,
22 Sep. 2025
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Given the state of the Windows threat landscape, that would be ill-advised.—
Zak Doffman,
Forbes.com,
4 Sep. 2025
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However, long-term makeup storage is ill-advised.—
Hallie Milstein,
Southern Living,
2 Sep. 2025
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“Misdirected.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/misdirected. Accessed 30 Sep. 2025.
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