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 argue that any of this research adds up to a substantial account of intelligence misunderstands the nature of such human traits and what can be expected from scientific explanations of them.
    Eric Turkheimer, The Atlantic, 13 Oct. 2025
  • Nigeria deserves solidarity in its fight against terror — not careless rhetoric that fuels misunderstanding.
    Jordan King, MSNBC Newsweek, 8 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • No good will come to the Palestinian cause from any association, however misconstrued, with violent attacks such as the one in Manchester.
    Hussein Ibish, The Atlantic, 7 Oct. 2025
  • Knox’s first interview with the police was without a translator and many of her statements appeared to be misconstrued.
    Claudia Rosenbaum, Vulture, 3 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • But is Gemma misreading the signs?
    Ryan Schwartz, TVLine, 30 Sep. 2025
  • Absolutely stunning to see a high-ranking executive misread their own business like this.
    Matt Audilet, MSNBC Newsweek, 30 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • However, the latest White House memo contends that this law has been misinterpreted.
    Brendan Rascius, Miami Herald, 7 Oct. 2025
  • White House spokesperson Abigail Jackson said in a statement Friday that the 1st Circuit was misinterpreting the 14th Amendment.
    Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 5 Oct. 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 16 Oct. 2025.

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