misremembering

verb

present participle of misremember
as in ignoring

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for misremembering
  1. ignoring
  2. disregarding
  3. neglecting
  4. forgetting
  5. passing over
  6. slighting
Verb
  • The aftermath of the fire has been litigious, with tenants accusing companies of not maintaining safety systems, ignoring complaints about fireworks and failing to secure the property after the fire.
    — Cassidy Alexander, AJC.com, 24 July 2026
  • The market up until now has been looking through or flat out ignoring the inevitable supply shock if the status quo persists, our base case expectation.
    — Brian Sullivan, CNBC, 23 July 2026
Definition of ignoring
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  • Salgado Araujo, the department added, was shot after disregarding orders and attempting to ram an agent, who fired his weapon in self-defense.
    — María Verza, Los Angeles Times, 9 July 2026
  • For the next several months, Zaayer continued harassing both Shawna's family and the police by shouting at their grandchild, disregarding property lines and recording them and making false claims on social media, per The Guardian.
    — Caroline Blair, PEOPLE, 2 July 2026
Definition of disregarding
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  • Many finance transformations fall short because CFOs focus too much on org charts and technology while neglecting the broader operating model.
    — Anders Liu-Lindberg, Forbes.com, 23 July 2026
  • As Jefferson’s opponents criticized him for sanctioning intervention and neglecting to free the prisoners, his supporters lashed out at the opposing Federalist Party for allegedly orchestrating a rebellion in Spain’s colonies in the first place.
    — Lindsay Schakenbach Regele, The Conversation, 13 July 2026
Definition of neglecting
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  • Many businesses focus heavily on improving products while forgetting about the value of responsiveness.
    — Dmitriy Schwarzburg, Forbes.com, 17 July 2026
  • Never forgetting your past, but also living in the present, and always striving to do more in the future.
    — Preezy Brown, VIBE.com, 16 July 2026
Definition of forgetting
Verb
  • With eclipses passing over the country three years in a row, Spain is well on its way to cementing its reputation as a premier astrotourism destination.
    — Catherine Tansey, Condé Nast Traveler, 17 July 2026
  • The center of Super Typhoon Bavi, the equivalent of a Category 5 hurricane, was passing over Rota, an island of 2,000 people in the Northern Mariana Islands.
    — Brad Lendon, CNN Money, 6 July 2026
Definition of passing over
Verb
  • But in discharging this function, poets are in danger of slighting another imperative, namely, to redress poetry as poetry, to set it up as its own category, an eminence established and a pressure exercised by distinctly linguistic means.
    — Nick Laird, The New York Review of Books, 25 Apr. 2026
  • The subtext to the litigation is Oakley’s personal grievance against Dolan, whom the ex-player has long criticized, in part for slighting him compared to other Knicks legends.
    — Michael McCann, Sportico.com, 3 Nov. 2025
Definition of slighting
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“Misremembering.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/misremembering. Accessed 25 Jul. 2026.

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