as in to misunderstand
to fail to understand the true or actual meaning of
I misread her body language and thought she was becoming confrontational
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Recent Examples of misread
Without adequate context, AI tools may misread what’s appropriate, realistic or needed in each specific situation.
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Brent Dykes, Forbes.com, 16 July 2025
And signs have emerged that the White House may be misreading Trump’s election mandate and the political moment, with new polls showing public sentiment turning nationwide on the president’s increasingly aggressive enforcement tactics.
—Los Angeles Times, 10 July 2025
If a manager misreads your quieter phase as stagnation, consider reframing.
—Benjamin Laker, Forbes.com, 26 June 2025
Likewise, the group’s patrons in Iran may have misread the events of October 7 as evidence of fundamental Israeli weakness, rather than a terrible but isolated error.
—Yair Rosenberg, The Atlantic, 13 June 2025
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Brent Dykes, Forbes.com, 16 July 2025
And signs have emerged that the White House may be misreading Trump’s election mandate and the political moment, with new polls showing public sentiment turning nationwide on the president’s increasingly aggressive enforcement tactics.
—Los Angeles Times, 10 July 2025
If a manager misreads your quieter phase as stagnation, consider reframing.
—Benjamin Laker, Forbes.com, 26 June 2025
Likewise, the group’s patrons in Iran may have misread the events of October 7 as evidence of fundamental Israeli weakness, rather than a terrible but isolated error.
—Yair Rosenberg, The Atlantic, 13 June 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for misread
misunderstand
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Here are two key areas of the program that Americans tend to misunderstand: 1.—
Lorie Konish,
CNBC,
24 July 2025
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Actors may be influenced by emotion or misinformation, collude or form cartels, misunderstand incentives or lack information.—
Ali Faizan Rizvi,
Forbes.com,
23 July 2025
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