misjudgments

plural of misjudgment

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Recent Examples of misjudgments There, the discovery of a spacecraft and additional extraterrestrials transforms their chase into a simple struggle for survival, as what began as a series of understandable misjudgments spirals into a tragedy of cosmic scale. Patrick Brzeski, HollywoodReporter, 16 Sep. 2026 CFOs should lead difficult conversations about earlier misjudgments while identifying more realistic payback horizons. Jim Deloach, Forbes.com, 17 Aug. 2026 Sometimes these misjudgments lead to adverse health outcomes. Deidre Popovich, The Conversation, 22 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 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 Ullrich stresses the role of tactical mistakes and misjudgments, not least by the far left, which shortsightedly refused to compromise its beliefs and join with more moderate groups to oppose democratic backsliding. Foreign Affairs, 16 Dec. 2025 Torsten Sløk, chief economist at Apollo Global Management, said forecasts of an imminent slowdown have been repeatedly wrong, and the economics profession should start grappling with its track record of misjudgments. Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 1 Oct. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for misjudgments
mistakes
Noun
  • Mike Eckhaus and Zoe Latta don’t make those mistakes, as their popular jeans, knits, and tees attest.
    Vogue, Vogue, 17 Sep. 2026
  • So many individual mistakes litter their six games so far this season.
    Chris McKenna, New York Times, 16 Sep. 2026

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“Misjudgments.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/misjudgments. Accessed 21 Sep. 2026.

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