as in to misunderstand
to fail to understand the true or actual meaning of
I misread her body language and thought she was becoming confrontational
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Recent Examples of misread
Bloomsbury’s intellectual ancestors created a text that Bloomsbury could accept, reject, or misread, but could not ignore.
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Jenny Noyce, JSTOR Daily, 14 May 2025
Her dandyism operates as both shield and statement—protecting against misreading while simultaneously asserting presence.
—Skylar Mitchell, Essence, 12 May 2025
Her mother had misread something about the Property Brothers on the internet and was insisting that they were being persecuted for being Christian.
—Patricia Lockwood, New Yorker, 18 May 2025
Clearly the Red Sox misread things here, but with Devers the situation is a little more complicated.
—Mac Cerullo, Boston Herald, 10 May 2025
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Jenny Noyce, JSTOR Daily, 14 May 2025
Her dandyism operates as both shield and statement—protecting against misreading while simultaneously asserting presence.
—Skylar Mitchell, Essence, 12 May 2025
Her mother had misread something about the Property Brothers on the internet and was insisting that they were being persecuted for being Christian.
—Patricia Lockwood, New Yorker, 18 May 2025
Clearly the Red Sox misread things here, but with Devers the situation is a little more complicated.
—Mac Cerullo, Boston Herald, 10 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for misread
misunderstand
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All of the Italian characters are just wonderful human beings, and a lot of the miscommunication is the two guys, Andrew and Nick, who played Dom and Cole are misunderstanding what is being presented in front of them.—
Glenn Garner,
Deadline,
6 June 2025
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Heard said investors tend to misunderstand Adobe’s deliberate approach to AI monetization as its creative workflow translates raw AI material into competitive intelectual property.—
Pia Singh,Yun Li,
CNBC,
14 May 2025
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“Misread.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/misread. Accessed 17 Jun. 2025.
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