mishear

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Recent Examples of mishear 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 On Twitter, the reporter who wrote the article said the mistake happened because the comment by Buttigieg happened with a noisy background, causing the reporter to mishear the recording while transcribing at a rally. Jeanine Santucci, USA TODAY, 11 Nov. 2019
Recent Examples of Synonyms for mishear
Verb
  • Culturally sensitive clinical care is often misunderstood as simply providing surface-level accommodations — offering kosher meals, observing Sabbath restrictions, or including a rabbi on staff.
    Devora Shabtai, Sun Sentinel, 13 May 2025
  • Miller misunderstands the significance of the right of habeas corpus, for starters.
    Ruth Marcus, New Yorker, 12 May 2025
Verb
  • Her mother had misread something about the Property Brothers on the internet and was insisting that they were being persecuted for being Christian.
    Patricia Lockwood, New Yorker, 18 May 2025
  • Clearly the Red Sox misread things here, but with Devers the situation is a little more complicated.
    Mac Cerullo, Boston Herald, 10 May 2025
Verb
  • Depardieu has repeatedly refuted both accounts saying his actions had been misinterpreted.
    Melanie Goodfellow, Deadline, 13 May 2025
  • But while users were concerned about attendees misinterpreting the theme, or playing it safe by wearing something utterly boring, many took what came across their timeline and ran with it.
    Larisha Paul, Rolling Stone, 7 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 25 May. 2025.

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