misdirect
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Campbell appealed, saying one of her fellow trustees, lawyer Bianka Hellmich, forged her signature and impersonated her using a fake email address to misdirect money that was intended for the charity.
From BBC ● Oct. 1, 2026
It is kind of like the ultimate misdirect, you know what I mean?
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 18, 2025
We can’t afford to let the banks misdirect us again.
From Slate ● Mar. 22, 2024
“Baylor’s focus of media attention on football tried to misdirect attention from institutional failures of the Baylor administration. Our clients would have none of that,” Dunn said.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 18, 2023
“Somehow we think it is funny to misdirect people and we don’t smile when we do it, but we laugh inwardly. It is our nature.”
From "Travels with Charley in Search of America" by John Steinbeck
He dazzles and misdirects, prods and pokes, changes topics midsentence and frequently offers claims that are on their face so bizarre that they demand repetition by the media, if only to be discounted.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 24, 2019
My brother and I worked really hard in the writing to answer all the questions for ourselves, but then to create all these misdirects for the audience.
From The Verge ● Oct. 18, 2019
As my colleague Amanda Marcotte explains, signs and prophesies in this series are misdirects more often than they end up amounting to substantive outcomes.
From Salon ● May 2, 2019
A master magician with words, Deaver misdirects with one tale while what's really going on is just off the reader's radar.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 3, 2013
Knowledge is valuable for action, and error is chiefly hurtful in so far as it misdirects conduct.
From Illusions A Psychological Study by James Sully
But, if he wrote to prove genius as a prognosticator, it’s a misdirected column.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 19, 2026
They also said the judge misdirected the jury about evidence from another of the participants.
From BBC ● Jul. 24, 2026
Has our unity fallen into misdirected victimhood disguised as sisterhood?
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 21, 2026
If AI was used, he argued that the key question is "how old was the data" used for the targeting, and whether the misdirected strike stemmed from "a database error".
From Barron's ● Mar. 7, 2026
But there’s this Scrollr account that posts misdirected texts.
From "Bye Forever, I Guess" by Jodi Meadows
However, in July 2025, the Supreme Court decided that all the judges had erred, misdirecting juries that it was wrong as a matter of law.
From BBC ● Oct. 9, 2026
Last Wednesday, TikTok creators, finding none of the mayhem they expected to see in Springfield, started suggesting that faith-based groups working with Haitian immigrants were misdirecting resources.
From Salon ● Feb. 14, 2026
Furious, Strowger blamed the operators for misdirecting calls meant for him to his competitors, and set about inventing a bias-free, electromechanical machine to replace them.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 26, 2024
In a 2013 lawsuit, Harry accused Daniel of misdirecting $6.5 million in corporate funds “for the purpose of advancing the international cart racing activities” of his sons, Logan and Dalton; that litigation was eventually settled.
From New York Times ● May 13, 2023
But Kronos was always fooling us, misdirecting our attention.
From "The Last Olympian" by Rick Riordan
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