mishear

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Recent Examples of mishear Likewise, transcription accuracy during post-call scenarios remains a critical bottleneck, especially when AI mishears essential details like customer names, street addresses or job descriptions. Somil Gupta, Forbes.com, 9 June 2025 Older patients, especially, mishear instructions or are too overwhelmed by bad news to listen carefully. David Owen, New Yorker, 21 Apr. 2025 These assistants regularly misunderstand, mishear, and sometimes just don’t listen at all. Jennifer Pattison Tuohy, The Verge, 14 June 2024 She's confused: Did Adrian mishear something or is Brayden being manipulative? Kristen Baldwin, EW.com, 4 July 2023 The people in her stories mishear and misunderstand one another, indulge in compulsive wordplay and defiant corniness. Parul Sehgal, The New Yorker, 12 June 2023 Now, don’t mishear me. San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 Nov. 2022 Biden didn’t seem to mishear the question. Stephen Collinson, CNN, 19 Sep. 2022 Responding, Thompson defended the profession and appeared either to mishear the host or not know who Sean Bean was. K.j. Yossman, Variety, 11 Aug. 2022
Recent Examples of Synonyms for mishear
Verb
  • But to define Alex Martins by the Magic’s win-loss record is to fundamentally misunderstand the impact he’s had — not just on a franchise, but on a city.
    Mike Bianchi, The Orlando Sentinel, 25 June 2025
  • The straightforward, seemingly trivial moment—a dog misunderstanding the basic principles of light and shadow—turned into a comically relatable spectacle.
    Melissa Fleur Afshar, MSNBC Newsweek, 17 June 2025
Verb
  • If the foundry sits buried beneath Intel’s bloated structure, the market will continue to misread its upside.
    Jim Osman, Forbes.com, 21 June 2025
  • For example, time was misread as tme, good was misread as goo, and large was misread as lar.
    PC Magazine, PC Magazine, 11 June 2025
Verb
  • Harmon says the board is misinterpreting the statute and has appealed.
    The Editorial Board, Chicago Tribune, 11 June 2025
  • The actor has repeatedly denied both accounts saying his actions were misinterpreted.
    Anthony D'Alessandro, Deadline, 13 May 2025
Verb
  • According to the researchers, these misperceptions may stop people from speaking up about their concerns and cause policymakers to misperceive how much their constituents care.
    Laura Schulte, Journal Sentinel, 28 Apr. 2023
  • Russian pilots could misperceive the escorts as offensive NATO warplanes and engage them, precipitating a disaster with unknown consequences.
    Rebeccah Heinrichs, National Review, 24 Feb. 2022
Verb
  • But would her students, turned on everywhere by the dogma of political correctness, misapprehend Haynes’s aim?
    Doreen St. Félix, The New Yorker, 22 June 2023
  • Some people misapprehend it and think of as imitation.
    New York Times, New York Times, 17 Nov. 2021

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“Mishear.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/mishear. Accessed 4 Jul. 2025.

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