misguide
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As expectations about what these products should detect increase, so too do the opportunities to let them misguide us and cause us to punish or profile innocent people.
From Slate ● Dec. 11, 2023
“The agents guide the people, or misguide them, into going illegally,” Anil Pratham, director of the anti-human trafficking unit of the Gujarat police, said in a telephone interview.
From New York Times ● Mar. 14, 2022
Don’t let the instant success stories of the past decade misguide you.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 30, 2021
The words lingered as he drove me home in silence, forming the genesis of a mantra that would frequently misguide me as I transformed myself into an Everything But Girl.
From Salon ● Feb. 10, 2013
Of all the causes that conspire to blind Man's erring judgment, and misguide the mind, What the weak head with strongest bias rules, Is pride, the never-failing vice of fools.
From Many Thoughts of Many Minds A Treasury of Quotations from the Literature of Every Land and Every Age by Louis Klopsch
Estranged parents—such as Laura Wellington, aka Doormat Mom—say that estranged children are misguided and spoiled.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 26, 2026
The war in Iraq was a tragically misguided venture that tested the Western alliance more than 20 years ago.
From Salon ● Sep. 17, 2026
In the weeks leading up to the first Super Bowl at SoFi, there were misguided rumblings that the game might be moved to Dallas, because the NFL had secured that city as a backup.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 6, 2026
Scientists have described the UKRI's decision as "heartbreaking" and "scientifically misguided".
From BBC ● Sep. 1, 2026
If so, who guarded the poisoned area to keep out any who might wander in, in misguided search for unspoiled nature?
From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson
Hamilton said: "It is unacceptable, cowardly and misguiding for those in power to suggest such a law."
From BBC ● Jul. 29, 2021
PSG players celebrated with enthusiasm in front of their fans but the exuberance was somewhat misplaced and also misguiding.
From Washington Times ● Oct. 19, 2016
We all feel as if we have been entirely by-passed and badly misled and in so being have been misguiding those who have sought and heeded our advice.
From BBC ● Jun. 29, 2011
Result: potentially terribly misguiding images of events going around the world.
From New York Times ● Feb. 5, 2010
The misguided ideas of a misguided leader who in turn was misguiding his army and his people.
From "The Light in Hidden Places" by Sharon Cameron
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