misinterpret

"It was more about me being excited about the game, which I think people started to misinterpret as being absolute promises. And I wasn't smart enough to realise that."

From BBC ● Apr. 21, 2026

Don’t misinterpret Macdonald and his team’s “we don’t care” mantra.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 8, 2026

It may omit relevant information while summarizing, mix up who is speaking and misinterpret context—such as missing nonverbal cues.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 5, 2025

It’s easy for students to misunderstand and misinterpret college award letters that specify the financial aid they will receive.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 31, 2025

Mandarax had been known to garble or misinterpret quest instructions and cues, which could easily lead to fatal mistakes.

From "Ready Player One: A Novel" by Ernest Cline

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

Bentley introduced a detective who misinterprets the clues made available to the reader; his solution is proven wrong even though the same clues yield the correct answer.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 20, 2026

“We’re alone,” she tells someone who misinterprets her faith as something to ward off loneliness.

From Salon ● Feb. 5, 2024

The new research, Wen says, misinterprets these changes as caused by the core’s spin rather than to its fluctuating surface.

From Scientific American ● Jan. 25, 2023

I put out my hand to get a slap from him, but he misinterprets that as a handshake attempt, so I take the initiative and turn it into a hug, a big smelly one.

From "It’s Kind of a Funny Story" by Ned Vizzini

She later said the comments had been misinterpreted.

From Barron's ● Jul. 6, 2026

“In his zealous and highly scrutinized representation, Dershowitz made a spontaneous series of remarks before Congress that, he says, were misinterpreted by pundits,” Judge Britt Grant, a Trump appointee wrote for the 11th Circuit Court.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 29, 2026

“Now, because audiences can be so polarized, when you send out a message, you’ve really got to think about not only ‘How can this be interpreted?’ but also ‘How can this be misinterpreted?’

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 8, 2026

Chatfield said her old video had been misinterpreted and she had not called for any political violence against Donald Trump.

From BBC ● May 12, 2026

I had clearly misinterpreted the scene in the hallway.

From "Paper Towns" by John Green

Ritholtz does exactly that, running through such surefire ways to wreck your wealth as ignoring taxes, paying excessive fees, misinterpreting data, overreacting to short-term trends, and trading too much.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 14, 2026

"Without accurate assessment tools, policymakers, developers and users risk misinterpreting what AI systems can actually do," he said.

From Science Daily ● Mar. 13, 2026

However, California State Parks said that plaintiffs’ attorneys are misinterpreting that passage.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 27, 2025

As rambling as it can be, misinterpreting “Die My Love” as anything other than Lawrence’s is impossible.

From Salon ● Nov. 7, 2025

Since there are serious consequences to misinterpreting these statements as absolute laws, a responsible writer should insert a qualifier like on average or all things being equal, together with a slightly or somewhat.

From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker