misdirect
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He said Mr Justice Bright did misdirect the jury about the waiver, but only on it being potentially "decisive" if it were a civil trial instead of a criminal one.
From BBC ● Jul. 24, 2026
Suspecting Al-Nourji of trying to misdirect them, the police held him for questioning.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 30, 2026
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
If that was so, then I was partly to blame, for I had distracted the cannoneer and caused him to misdirect the shot.
From "The Shakespeare Stealer" by Gary L. Blackwood
Then there are the hysterical, bizarre misdirects of Adult Swim’s 2022 “Yule Log” and its 2024 sequel “Yule Log 2: Branchin’ Out,” both on HBO Max.
From Salon ● Dec. 18, 2025
Mick and Veronica are interesting protagonists with a complex, compelling relationship, and the antagonist, who is revealed near the end of the novel after a series of hints and misdirects, is genuinely terrifying.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 29, 2021
Elmohamady down the right wing and his cross is decent, Samatta climbs highest but misdirects his header.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 12, 2020
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
It seems to me, on the contrary, to be a harmful one, inasmuch as it misdirects the mind of a people, already little open to pure artistic emotion, as to the special function of Art.
From The Life, Letters and Work of Frederic Leighton Volume II by Mrs. Russell Barrington
That wasn’t an act of misdirected reverence but a refusal of reverence.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 16, 2026
By the time couples notice, the pressure is already there, and it often gets misdirected at each other.
From MarketWatch ● Feb. 20, 2026
Rather than reflecting a loss of control due to runaway habits, some compulsive behaviors may result from excessive, though misdirected, deliberate control.
From Science Daily ● Feb. 16, 2026
The upshot is that economic nationalism is misdirected.
From Barron's ● Jan. 23, 2026
Donald had provided aid to slaves his whole life, whenever possible and with whatever means at hand, ever since he was a small boy and misdirected some bounty men who badgered him over a runaway.
From "The Underground Railroad: A Novel" by Colson Whitehead
“The inevitable outcome is an undermining of the broader missions of science and public health and the misdirecting of resources and effort,” they wrote.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 28, 2025
In the heat-soaked world of Marty Hart and Rust Cohle, creepiness was an affectation — part misdirecting figment, part metaphor.
From Salon ● Feb. 5, 2024
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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