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misunderstand

[mis-uhn-der-stand] / ˌmɪs ʌn dərˈstænd /


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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

Hopefully Hollywood won’t misunderstand the lesson in those projects’ success.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 19, 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

And if AI agents are not kept on course by a human, they could misunderstand an instruction and wander down an errant processing path, resulting in a business paying for wasted computing power.

From Barron's ● Mar. 30, 2026

It is also an act of courtesy, because consistent trees are easier to parse and harder to misunderstand.

From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker

Is she the one who is out of line and misunderstands the boundaries of marriage?

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 1, 2026

Such a view misunderstands what the court is up to in those rare instances when it has stood up to the president.

From Slate ● Sep. 16, 2026

Amazon said the lawsuit is “misguided” and that the FTC’s claim “fundamentally misunderstands how advertisers operate.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 1, 2026

De Zylva argues this misunderstands the point: "The purpose of the green belt isn't to be green per se, it is to be a buffer to prevent sprawl."

From BBC ● Apr. 22, 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

Man City have denied the claims and say the Premier League had misunderstood the sponsorship agreements.

From BBC ● Sep. 29, 2026

When scientists first discussed the possibility, the idea became widely misunderstood.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 23, 2026

"I do not want to entrust national pride to the wrong people," said Klopp, who prefers the term "positive patriotism" to "national pride", which he fears can be misunderstood.

From BBC ● Sep. 17, 2026

This fresh attempt to clarify his position is styled by Mr. Fukuyama as a memoir, but it is better seen as a series of meditations—the meditations, in truth, of a misunderstood man.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 8, 2026

To have misunderstood it on this scale—five versus six million—seemed impossible.

From "Educated" by Tara Westover

His calm, quiet presence somehow sets off a fire of indignation and misunderstanding, which gets worse when one of the ladies asks the basket weaver to make her a wicker baby.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 22, 2026

The results also highlighted a persistent misunderstanding surrounding the familiar hurricane "cone of uncertainty."

From Science Daily ● Oct. 20, 2026

Ukraine's Foreign Minister Andriy Sybiga has called the incident a "diplomatic misunderstanding".

From Barron's ● Oct. 8, 2026

"Many teeth from Saurichthys were once mistaken for those of an amphibian, and that misunderstanding continued well into the 20th Century," said Museum Wales curator Cindy Howells.

From BBC ● Sep. 28, 2026

But it is at least a great comfort to hear his lordship declare so unequivocally that it was all a terrible misunderstanding.

From "The Remains of the Day" by Kazuo Ishiguro


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