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Recent Examples of misremember
Instead, this reboot might be misremembered as a direct-to-video curio — or rediscovered as a bad cult object destined to give some idiot cinephile alcohol poisoning.
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Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 23 Jan. 2026
Dear Abby: As my parents have aged, my father has been misremembering things or making wrong assumptions.
—Abigail Van Buren, Boston Herald, 12 Dec. 2025
As my parents have aged, my father has been misremembering things or making wrong assumptions.
—Jeanne Phillips, Mercury News, 12 Dec. 2025
Baby Boomers also tend to misremember seeing bloody scenes of battle.
—Time, 20 Sep. 2025
Silver’s comments mirror those of many others, including Democratic voters and Gov. Gavin Newsom, who are all clearly misremembering the recent past.
—Matt Fleming, Oc Register, 6 Sep. 2025
Thus, for the 100th anniversary of Phantom, Rolls-Royce delicately recreated the myth, placing a Phantom in pool water in England, with photographers and videographers there to ensure that it wouldn’t be misremembered, like Keith Moon.
—Erik Shilling, Robb Report, 25 Aug. 2025
Does the unreliability of memory mean that year is misremembered as the nadir from where change stemmed?
—Jacob Whitehead, New York Times, 30 July 2025
There are so many reasons Marsha might misremember dates, times and figures around Stonewall during that interview — trauma affects memory deeply, as does illness, both mental and physical.
—Carly Tagen-Dye, People.com, 20 May 2025
Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 23 Jan. 2026
Dear Abby: As my parents have aged, my father has been misremembering things or making wrong assumptions.
—Abigail Van Buren, Boston Herald, 12 Dec. 2025
As my parents have aged, my father has been misremembering things or making wrong assumptions.
—Jeanne Phillips, Mercury News, 12 Dec. 2025
Baby Boomers also tend to misremember seeing bloody scenes of battle.
—Time, 20 Sep. 2025
Silver’s comments mirror those of many others, including Democratic voters and Gov. Gavin Newsom, who are all clearly misremembering the recent past.
—Matt Fleming, Oc Register, 6 Sep. 2025
Thus, for the 100th anniversary of Phantom, Rolls-Royce delicately recreated the myth, placing a Phantom in pool water in England, with photographers and videographers there to ensure that it wouldn’t be misremembered, like Keith Moon.
—Erik Shilling, Robb Report, 25 Aug. 2025
Does the unreliability of memory mean that year is misremembered as the nadir from where change stemmed?
—Jacob Whitehead, New York Times, 30 July 2025
There are so many reasons Marsha might misremember dates, times and figures around Stonewall during that interview — trauma affects memory deeply, as does illness, both mental and physical.
—Carly Tagen-Dye, People.com, 20 May 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for misremember
Verb
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Still, even inside the awards-season bubble, the turmoil surrounding the movie business, the country and the world beyond it was hard to ignore.—
Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
11 Feb. 2026
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They're exhausted by the constant airing of grievances having little to do with what's actually going on in the country, and by the broad generalizations about, well, everything, that ignore context, nuance and facts to promote a political viewpoint.—
Brenda Looper,
Arkansas Online,
11 Feb. 2026
Verb
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Crazy how that works, and crazy that so many people seem to have forgotten that lesson (and many others) from their civics classes in high school.—
Brenda Looper,
Arkansas Online,
11 Feb. 2026
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But even if that New Year's resolution of clearing out the basement once and for all has been forgotten or abandoned by now, the year is still young.—
Rebecca Jones,
Southern Living,
11 Feb. 2026
Verb
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Then, as Musk has been prone to do, the former presidential adviser disregarded much of his previous explanation and said that building a civilization on Mars was still an option, just that building on the Moon is SpaceX’s current priority.—
Washington Examiner Staff,
The Washington Examiner,
9 Feb. 2026
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Decades of pandering to public employee unions, bloating of bureaucratic staffs, and disregarding voter wishes regarding the outsourcing of local services and limiting pensions have been identified.—
U T Readers,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
6 Feb. 2026
Verb
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The Olay Super Eye Serum aims to brighten dark circles and firm the fragile under-eye area that can often be neglected, but which deserves daily TLC.—
Claire West,
InStyle,
9 Feb. 2026
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The land beneath the pool had been neglected and overgrown.—
Abby Montanez,
Robb Report,
8 Feb. 2026
Verb
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The right felt slighted, again, this time as the victim of a great left-wing conspiracy to turn football’s biggest night against them.—
Lorraine Ali,
Los Angeles Times,
4 Feb. 2026
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Did Probst feel slighted by all the backlash?—
David Canfield,
Vanity Fair,
20 Jan. 2026
Verb
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Words disremembered, abandoned from tents & saw / packs.—
oregonlive,
oregonlive,
19 Mar. 2020
Verb
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Yet he was passed over for the accolade.—
Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
14 Feb. 2026
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It could be mistaken for the latter only because Jokic had thrown so many errant passes over the last two hours already.—
Bennett Durando,
Denver Post,
10 Feb. 2026
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“Misremember.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/misremember. Accessed 16 Feb. 2026.
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