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misunderstand

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


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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

They misunderstand the proper role of an economic system.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 2, 2026

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

From Barron's May 29, 2026

What do audiences underestimate or misunderstand about what it takes to make a comedy?

From Los Angeles Times May 26, 2026

So I hope you won’t misunderstand what I have to say.”

From "The Joy Luck Club" by Amy Tan

For Barton, the red card illustrates something he believes the public still misunderstands: VAR does not eliminate the need for the referee to interpret the rules.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 10, 2026

That is because Kagan believes the question itself misunderstands the Fourth Amendment.

From Slate Jun. 29, 2026

The court "misunderstands FIFRA's requirement, misinterprets the scope of FIFRA's preemption and ultimately leaves Durness without a remedy for the significant harms he has suffered."

From Barron's Jun. 25, 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

The man who once said he would like to be “the King of Football” has often conducted himself as the organization’s sole executive, believing that any opponents simply misunderstood his purpose.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 1, 2026

But I do think many have collectively misunderstood his apparent message of regret.

From Slate Jul. 31, 2026

Derived from basketball and developed by teenagers in late-Victorian England, netball is sport's great misunderstood "girly game".

From BBC Jul. 23, 2026

I think the common denominator in all of us who love your music is that we are black sheep — the weird ones, the chronically misunderstood.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 21, 2026

All I could think of at first was that somehow he had misunderstood something I had said.

From "Z for Zachariah" by Robert C. O’Brien

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

She said there was plenty of "potential for misunderstanding", among tenants about pet-friendly properties.

From BBC Jul. 26, 2026

Through a misunderstanding, some children reported for duty at Genoa, where no slave ships were waiting.

From "Slaughterhouse-Five" by Kurt Vonnegut




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