as in to misunderstand
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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.
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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
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
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Here are two key areas of the program that Americans tend to misunderstand: 1.—
Lorie Konish,
CNBC,
24 July 2025
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Actors may be influenced by emotion or misinformation, collude or form cartels, misunderstand incentives or lack information.—
Ali Faizan Rizvi,
Forbes.com,
23 July 2025
Verb
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Without adequate context, AI tools may misread what’s appropriate, realistic or needed in each specific situation.—
Brent Dykes,
Forbes.com,
16 July 2025
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And signs have emerged that the White House may be misreading Trump’s election mandate and the political moment, with new polls showing public sentiment turning nationwide on the president’s increasingly aggressive enforcement tactics.—
Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
10 July 2025
Verb
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He’s frequently portrayed as a beacon of hope and moral clarity, but he’s often also misinterpreted and feared by those around him because of this immense power.—
Ari Daniel,
Smithsonian Magazine,
10 July 2025
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So, the fact that it can be misinterpreted by some, this is always going to be the case.—
CBS News,
CBS News,
6 July 2025
Verb
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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
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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
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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
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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 30 Jul. 2025.
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