MISREMEMBERING Synonyms: 25 Similar and Opposite Words

misremembering

verb

present participle of misremember

as in ignoring

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Renner said Donalds is ignoring base Republican voters in his campaign, especially by refusing to debate him, Collins and conservative activist and investor James Fishback.

— Gray Rohrer, Miami Herald, 31 July 2026
Traditional lenders remain hesitant about self-employment income, often ignoring or penalizing applicants whose taxable net returns don't reflect their actual cash flow, despite gig workers diversifying their risk through multiple income streams.

— Efri Argaman, Forbes.com, 29 July 2026

Definition of ignoring

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Jelly Roll and Bunnie Xo are disregarding their lawyers’ advice about a life-changing decision amid their divorce.

— Marina Watts, Entertainment Weekly, 21 July 2026
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

Definition of disregarding

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Today, dozens or even hundreds of AI tools are released every week, and developers often bet on the most efficient models as a competitive advantage, forgetting to build them into the workflow properly.

— Arthur Azizov, Forbes.com, 31 July 2026
Those who aren’t are forgetting their history, Wilkerson said.

— Matthew Adams, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 28 July 2026

Definition of forgetting

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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

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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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