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as in to misrepresent
to change so much as to create a wrong impression or alter the meaning of
his note on this passage in the novel seriously misinterprets the author's meaning
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as in to misunderstand
to fail to understand the true or actual meaning of
we misinterpreted the directions and ended up on the wrong side of town
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Recent Examples of misinterpret
Even so, that study has been misinterpreted to build this legal challenge to fluoride.
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Megha Satyanarayana, Scientific American, 4 Apr. 2025
Whether that’s sending a message to the wrong person or having your words misinterpreted by others.
—Valerie Mesa, People.com, 15 Mar. 2025
Most Canadians want uncomplicated lives, a desire for calm that can be misinterpreted by louder people as meekness.
—Chris Jones, The Atlantic, 14 Mar. 2025
Early algorithms trained predominantly on male speech patterns often misinterpreted women's voices, frustrating users, delaying adoption, and resulting in expensive product fixes.
—Committee Of 200, Forbes, 12 Mar. 2025
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Megha Satyanarayana, Scientific American, 4 Apr. 2025
Whether that’s sending a message to the wrong person or having your words misinterpreted by others.
—Valerie Mesa, People.com, 15 Mar. 2025
Most Canadians want uncomplicated lives, a desire for calm that can be misinterpreted by louder people as meekness.
—Chris Jones, The Atlantic, 14 Mar. 2025
Early algorithms trained predominantly on male speech patterns often misinterpreted women's voices, frustrating users, delaying adoption, and resulting in expensive product fixes.
—Committee Of 200, Forbes, 12 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for misinterpret
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What To Know The complaint centers on claims that Tesla and CEO Musk repeatedly misrepresented these systems as fully autonomous or nearly so, even though the technology remains incomplete.—
Ross Rosenfeld,
MSNBC Newsweek,
22 Apr. 2025
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The scholars were joined last year by some of Bonhoeffer’s living relatives, who released a statement accusing Metaxas, a vocal supporter of President Donald Trump, of misrepresenting Bonhoeffer as a fundamentalist evangelical.—
John Blake,
CNN Money,
13 Apr. 2025
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Is Big, Beautiful And Sad Northern Lights Alert For 17 States After ‘Double Eruption’ On Sun Time Blocking as a Leadership Act Time blocking, often misunderstood as a simple productivity hack, is in fact a form of proactive alignment.—
Nell Derick Debevoise,
Forbes.com,
15 Apr. 2025
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Teachers commonly misunderstood his methods of self-regulation, such as stimming by flapping his hands, as a threat.—
Rachel Hale,
USA Today,
9 Apr. 2025
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The references to nineteenth-century American literary heroes and ideals may be distorted, but the ideals find an authentic embodiment in these calmly rapturous images of nature.—
Richard Brody,
New Yorker,
18 Apr. 2025
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What once kept us safe can now distort intimacy, create misunderstandings and erode trust.—
Mark Travers,
Forbes.com,
18 Apr. 2025
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“Misinterpret.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/misinterpret. Accessed 29 Apr. 2025.
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