misjudgment

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Recent Examples of misjudgment Sometimes these misjudgments lead to adverse health outcomes. Deidre Popovich, The Conversation, 22 July 2026 What begins as misjudgment, the official synopsis teases, spirals through human conflict into tragedy on a cosmic scale. Patrick Brzeski, HollywoodReporter, 9 July 2026 Mistakes and misjudgments come with the territory, but there has been a notable uptick in errors leading directly to opposition chances. Mark Carey, New York Times, 28 June 2026 In an era of higher funding costs and unpredictable liquidity windows, the penalty for misjudgment compounds quickly. Peter Doyle, Forbes.com, 26 June 2026 Municipal utilities are largely unregulated, which makes misjudgments in purchasing power contracts a serious risk to local ratepayers. Kevin Rennie, Hartford Courant, 20 June 2026 But the ball was misplayed in left field and a baserunning misjudgment allowed Kennedy to get the potential tying run into a rundown. Ethan Hanson, Daily News, 23 May 2026 Linda, meanwhile, survives the poisoning due to Bradley's misjudgment on the dosage. Brianna Zigler, Entertainment Weekly, 21 May 2026 And Iran’s broadening of the war with reckless attacks is likely to turn out to be a major strategic misjudgment on Tehran’s part. Eliot A. Cohen, The Atlantic, 6 Mar. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for misjudgment
mistake
Noun
  • Our work shows that expressive cues appear to shift how people perceive a mistake out of the category of technical malfunction and into the category of social violation, like those that happen between people.
    Yigit Topoglu, The Conversation, 3 Aug. 2026
  • But according to rocket scientists at the China Academy of Launch Vehicle Technology (CALT), slamming a nuclear warhead directly into the side of a space rock is a rookie mistake.
    Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 3 Aug. 2026

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“Misjudgment.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/misjudgment. Accessed 9 Aug. 2026.

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