as in misunderstanding
to fail to understand the true or actual meaning of
humor-challenged members of the audience misperceived the speaker's harmless joke as an insult to their organization
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misunderstanding
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People keep either misunderstanding or forgetting that there are not one but two revolutions going on here, the second being accelerated computing.—
Jim Cramer,
CNBC,
4 Jan. 2026 -
Interestingly, people often described fears that were based on misunderstanding how technology works – or fails to work.—
Alaina Vandervoort Burns,
The Conversation,
17 Dec. 2025
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“Misperceiving.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/misperceiving. Accessed 16 Jan. 2026.
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