as in missed
to fail to understand the true or actual meaning of
so often, for all of our presumption, we misknow the hearts of others
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And when Rose missed from 15 feet, McIlroy finally sealed it.—
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14 Apr. 2025 -
The Dodgers then gift-wrapped an insurance run to the Cubs in the eighth, giving up another score after Conforto missed a fly ball near the left-field line for a leadoff double.—
Jack Harris,
Los Angeles Times,
14 Apr. 2025
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In 2023, a forty-eight-year-old El Paso resident was taking medicine to her grandmother when she was arrested by state troopers on a stakeout, who had mistaken her for a smuggler.—
Jonathan Blitzer,
The New Yorker,
10 Mar. 2025
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As with cigarettes and vaping, my brain had mistaken my nicotine addiction for an attachment to the vessel that the nicotine came in.—
Carrie Battan,
The New Yorker,
10 Mar. 2025
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“Misknown.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/misknown. Accessed 2 May. 2025.
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