misheard

verb

past tense of mishear
as in misunderstood

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  1. misunderstood
  2. misread
  3. misconstrued
  4. misinterpreted
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  • Either dark energy is a real phenomenon, causing the universe to grow bigger at a faster and faster rate, or there is no dark energy at all, and scientists have somehow misunderstood the laws of gravity at cosmic scales.
    — Clara Moskowitz, Scientific American, 1 July 2026
  • The county argues the grand jury fundamentally misunderstood what happened before the explosion, saying its investigation relied on speculation instead of evidence and wrongly blamed county officials for a criminal enterprise prosecutors say was built on years of deception.
    — Daniel Lempres, Sacbee.com, 23 June 2026
Definition of misunderstood
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  • That burns tokens, slows response times and increases the chances that the model will miss or misread something important.
    — Bruce Kelley, Forbes.com, 31 July 2026
  • That’s a demand signal Western automakers cannot afford to misread — particularly as more affordable competition is still at least a year away from market.
    — Philipp Kampshoff, Fortune, 30 July 2026
Definition of misread
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  • Sanchez said that the ruling had been intentionally misconstrued by migrant smugglers to convince thousands of people to cross by swimming around the border fence.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 4 Aug. 2026
  • Sherman misconstrued my letter.
    — Voice of the People, New York Daily News, 29 June 2026
Definition of misconstrued
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  • Every interaction introduces new opportunities for sensitive information to be exposed, mishandled or misinterpreted.
    — Syed Ali, Forbes.com, 29 July 2026
  • One is that Err Content has allegedly misinterpreted the screenshots since—the NFL argues—the relaying of video content occurs not through the NFL app but rather because of software native to the smartphones.
    — Michael McCann, Sportico.com, 29 July 2026
Definition of misinterpreted
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