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misunderstand

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


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

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 19, 2026

To dismiss that language as frivolous, Shah argues, is to misunderstand what it is doing.

From BBC Jul. 22, 2026

We also discovered—without too much surprise—that he often seems to fundamentally misunderstand the works he treasures most deeply.

From Slate Jun. 11, 2026

Nvidia remains undervalued by investors, perhaps because they misunderstand the company’s true data-center dominance.

From Barron's May 29, 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

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

Cameron Berg misunderstands the Catholic Church’s contribution to humanity’s self-understanding in his op-ed “Will the Pope Owe an Apology to AI?”

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 24, 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

“This case misunderstands YouTube, which is a responsibly built streaming platform, not a social media site,” said Jose Castañeda, a Google spokesman, in a statement.

From Los Angeles Times Mar. 28, 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

Postpartum psychosis isn’t widely understood, which is why, at least in part, this trial is so misunderstood.

From Slate Aug. 25, 2026

Some families of people killed during the Troubles have hit back at comments by the Northern Ireland secretary that he was worried "some people have misunderstood the purpose" of the Troubles' legacy bill.

From BBC Aug. 25, 2026

Mere days after taking to the media to insist that he is a misunderstood film buff who just wants to save Hollywood, he threatened to help destroy it.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 13, 2026

Rather than disproving AI’s potential, this hiring rebound suggests many employers misunderstood where AI creates value.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 29, 2026

It was owing to him, to his reserve and want of proper consideration, that Wickham’s character had been so misunderstood, and consequently that he had been received and noticed as he was.

From "Pride and Prejudice" by Jane Austen

One misunderstanding of a variable interest rate or a cosigner’s responsibilities can blow up decades of financial planning.

From MarketWatch Aug. 24, 2026

Unlike the incident involving OpenAI's technology, Anthropic's models had access to the internet "due to a misunderstanding between us and our evaluation partner," called Irregular, Anthropic said in a blog post.

From Barron's Jul. 31, 2026

“From that point of view, it becomes a more serious story, and it goes beyond misunderstanding to something more worrying.”

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 31, 2026

To some, it may feel like Araki is flattening complex social mores and misunderstanding the anxieties behind this era of semi-celibacy.

From Salon Jul. 31, 2026

Which I’d argue is just a fundamental misunderstanding of the human predicament, but okay.

From "Turtles All the Way Down" by John Green




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