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
  • Missing a real pattern, like ignoring the rustle that was a tiger, could be fatal, while seeing a false one costs only a little adrenaline.
    — Josh Brown,Sean Russo, CNBC, 12 Nov. 2026
  • Brown was reportedly attempting to talk to Teyana Taylor, who was ignoring him (amazing) at a skating-rink birthday party, and Usher tried to interfere.
    — Jason P. Frank, Vulture, 11 Nov. 2026
Definition of ignoring
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  • Shaming people for disregarding the awesome nature of wisdom might appear a gross violation of their freedom of conscience.
    — Robert A. Ballingall, The Conversation, 13 Oct. 2026
  • China criticized Lai’s speech, accusing him of disregarding facts and misleading the public.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 12 Oct. 2026
Definition of disregarding
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  • The end of the Cybertruck’s production run also triggered criticism from Tesla fans who accused the company of neglecting existing customers as Musk chases a future where consumers don’t own their own vehicles.
    — Marco Quiroz-Gutierrez, Fortune, 9 Nov. 2026
  • Working out became gymmaxxing; eating too many beans became fibermaxxing; neglecting to look at your phone for eight whole hours became sleepmaxxing.
    — Hillary Busis, Vanity Fair, 5 Nov. 2026
Definition of neglecting
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  • There’s little more satisfying than playing and layering with my jewelry in the morning, sometimes forgetting pieces, other times overstacking them.
    — Libby Page, Vogue, 10 Nov. 2026
  • There are also concerns about harried parents of a newborn forgetting a dose and the fact that cases of vitamin K deficiency bleeding have been reported even when drops are used.
    — Duaa Eldeib, ProPublica, 8 Nov. 2026
Definition of forgetting
Verb
  • Expect Trinidad Chambliss, picked off three times by Texas, to be better against an Auburn defense that’s allowed over 700 yards passing over last two games.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 28 Oct. 2026
  • The probability of a hurricane passing over any particular point is low, especially farther from the Mexican coast, since most Pacific hurricanes tend to stay closer to Mexico.
    — Nicholas Grondin, The Conversation, 9 Sep. 2026
Definition of passing over
Verb
  • Yet what follows is an extended list of ethical sins, with a focus on the sins of abusive speech, such as slandering, slurring, slighting and smearing the reputations of others.
    — Reuven Kimelman, The Conversation, 18 Sep. 2026
  • 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
Definition of slighting
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