misunderstand
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On a recent episode of What Next, host Mary Harris spoke to Pulido about what Democrats misunderstand about South Texas and whether he’s singing the right tune for Congress.
From Slate ● Sep. 28, 2026
"Because they misunderstand it, this is not being reflected to employees," says Rahman, who runs a London-based consultancy, HR Habitat.
From BBC ● Sep. 8, 2026
What do audiences underestimate or misunderstand about what it takes to make a comedy?
From Los Angeles Times ● May 26, 2026
“To suggest that one branch would seek to derive economic benefit from the Epstein matter would be to misunderstand those ties and to insult the decision-makers involved,” it said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 30, 2026
If she said yes, he might manage to misunderstand her hatred of him.
From "Copper Sun" by Sharon M. Draper
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Is she the one who is out of line and misunderstands the boundaries of marriage?
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 1, 2026
For Barton, the red card illustrates something he believes the public still misunderstands: VAR does not eliminate the need for the referee to interpret the rules.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 10, 2026
Some of its language suggests that, despite several briefings, he completely misunderstands the subject of uranium enrichment—crucial to any negotiation with Iran.
From Slate ● Jul. 23, 2026
Your editorial praises a judicial opinion that misunderstands the 340B program.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 20, 2026
The evidence is clear: not only does della Porta echo Garzoni’s words, but he misunderstands some of the experiments he claims to have performed, and so misreports them.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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Purdue, who holds the third fastest British female marathon time, believes the treadmill has been long misunderstood.
From BBC ● Oct. 23, 2026
"If City can demonstrate the Commission fundamentally misunderstood the emails, failed to consider their proper context or reached conclusions inconsistent with other contemporaneous documents, that could amount to a material factual error," Severin added.
From BBC ● Oct. 16, 2026
When scientists first discussed the possibility, the idea became widely misunderstood.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 23, 2026
Some were men who, like him, were misunderstood or misread, and Mr. Fukuyama writes of them as kindred spirits.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 8, 2026
Except for the odd ones about television and bravery, they had seemed easy, but perhaps he was such a strange bird that he had misunderstood everything.
From "The Mysterious Benedict Society" by Trenton Lee Stewart
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McKinney thinks Roy’s emphasis on fighting Trump speaks to a misunderstanding of the job.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 23, 2026
The results also highlighted a persistent misunderstanding surrounding the familiar hurricane "cone of uncertainty."
From Science Daily ● Oct. 20, 2026
Proponents of the castaway theory argue this may have been a misunderstanding of Earhart giving her location as near the Norwich City.
From BBC ● Oct. 18, 2026
During Wednesday's earnings conference call, BofA executives were asked "how it gets to this point" and whether there was a misunderstanding of the rules.
From Barron's ● Oct. 14, 2026
At first, Nasreen Baji turned on the television news each morning as though she hoped they would report it all as a big misunderstanding.
From "Amal Unbound" by Aisha Saeed
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