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Recent Examples of misperception
Sands said there’s also been a public misperception that the inspectors are new hires whose only job duty is performing the inspections.
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David Garrick, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 Nov. 2025
To try and cope with this misperception, the law seeks to ensure that appropriate cautions and warnings are displayed to users.
—Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 8 Sep. 2025
Duford points to misinformation about the January Los Angeles fires, and later, a misperception that protests over immigration raids had taken over the whole city, as examples of why some people stayed away.
—Natasha Chen, CNN Money, 31 Aug. 2025
There’s a misperception, however, that tennis isn’t a good movie sport because there haven’t been that many great tennis movies.
—Joe Reid, Vulture, 29 Aug. 2025
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David Garrick, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 Nov. 2025
To try and cope with this misperception, the law seeks to ensure that appropriate cautions and warnings are displayed to users.
—Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 8 Sep. 2025
Duford points to misinformation about the January Los Angeles fires, and later, a misperception that protests over immigration raids had taken over the whole city, as examples of why some people stayed away.
—Natasha Chen, CNN Money, 31 Aug. 2025
There’s a misperception, however, that tennis isn’t a good movie sport because there haven’t been that many great tennis movies.
—Joe Reid, Vulture, 29 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for misperception
Noun
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Brooke Nevils’s memoir is also a reckoning with many misconceptions about #MeToo narratives, Hillary Kelly writes.—
Will Gottsegen,
The Atlantic,
13 Feb. 2026
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Rodriguez and four other board members praised the student demonstrators during a Board of Education Meeting on Tuesday at the Education Service Center in Waukegan, in attempting to correct misconceptions expressed on social media and elsewhere.—
Steve Sadin,
Chicago Tribune,
11 Feb. 2026
Noun
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But making a mistake can mean you get hit with an inaccurate tax bill or, worse, an audit.—
Jasmin Suknanan,
CNBC,
14 Feb. 2026
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Trying to fix a mistake before someone finds out?—
USA TODAY,
USA Today,
14 Feb. 2026
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“Misperception.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/misperception. Accessed 16 Feb. 2026.
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