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as in misrepresents
to change so much as to create a wrong impression or alter the meaning of
his note on this passage in the novel seriously misinterprets the author's meaning
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as in misunderstands
to fail to understand the true or actual meaning of
we misinterpreted the directions and ended up on the wrong side of town
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Recent Examples of misinterprets
Some of the Supreme Court’s own justices have also voiced concerns about whether the Obergefell decision infringes on religious freedom or misinterprets the Constitution.
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Brooke Migdon, The Hill, 26 June 2025
Brooke Migdon, The Hill, 26 June 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for misinterprets
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This statement fundamentally misrepresents how research is done.—
Brendan Harley,
Chicago Tribune,
2 Sep. 2025
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David McNew/Getty Images Dessler is just one of many leading climate scientists who voiced concerns about the DOE report, saying it is riddled with errors, shows signs of bias and misrepresents some research findings in order to downplay the threats from climate change.—
Jeff Young,
MSNBC Newsweek,
1 Sep. 2025
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This comes from an internal drive shaped by years of navigating a world that often misunderstands them.—
Alison Escalante,
Forbes.com,
26 Aug. 2025
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King was right that excluding Carrie’s commentary made And Just Like That … feel like a fundamentally different show, but that misunderstands a mechanism that made Sex and the City tick.—
Jackson McHenry,
Vulture,
15 Aug. 2025
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The reality is that a government stakeholder distorts fair competition.—
Tim Bajarin,
Forbes.com,
27 Aug. 2025
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Created by cartographer Gerardus Mercator for navigation, the projection distorts continent sizes, enlarging areas near the poles like North America and Greenland while shrinking Africa and South America.—
Reuters 4 hr ago,
CNN Money,
15 Aug. 2025
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