as in misunderstands
to make an incorrect judgment regarding
the gymnast misjudged her landing and sprained her ankle
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Recent Examples of misjudges
Home designer Allisa Jacobs wrote in a blog post that AI routinely misjudges the proportions and sizes of rooms and furniture, suggesting pieces that wouldn’t realistically fit in the space.
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Reed Albergotti, semafor.com, 1 Oct. 2025
But the Fed just kind of misjudges what's going on and pushes too hard on interest rates and pushes the economy in.
—Hugh Cameron, MSNBC Newsweek, 2 Sep. 2025
Reed Albergotti, semafor.com, 1 Oct. 2025
But the Fed just kind of misjudges what's going on and pushes too hard on interest rates and pushes the economy in.
—Hugh Cameron, MSNBC Newsweek, 2 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for misjudges
Verb
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Offshore planning that relies primarily on obscurity misunderstands how transparent global finance has become.—
Ascend Agency,
Chicago Tribune,
12 Mar. 2026
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Requiring them to operate as ordinary MPIA applicants misunderstands their role and undermines their purpose.—
Vaughn Stewart,
Baltimore Sun,
7 Mar. 2026
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Telling the story this way elides, smooths over, and underestimates the role of circumstance and dumb luck.—
Charles Yu,
The Atlantic,
5 Mar. 2026
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The problem is that this comparison often oversimplifies what Social Security actually is and underestimates how much risk and leverage already exist in today’s financial markets.—
Bruce Helmer,
Twin Cities,
28 Feb. 2026
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But for every moment of genuine accountability journalism that reminds the public what the press is capable of, there seems to follow another viral post, another sympathetic profile of a terrorist’s grieving relatives, another story that mistakes activism for reporting.—
Julian Baron,
Baltimore Sun,
18 Mar. 2026
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But that mistakes the symptom for the cause.—
Paul Polman,
Fortune,
14 Mar. 2026
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“Misjudges.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/misjudges. Accessed 22 Mar. 2026.
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