misconstruction

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But the venture of projecting an album into the future — especially one centered on climate catastrophe — can face its own set of preconceived expectations that can lead to misconstruction.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 17, 2022

Yale historian Matthew Frye Jacobson told the Times, in a story that was otherwise a whitewash of Lukianoff’s FIRE, that the organization’s spin and the media coverage were “a complete misconstruction of what happened.”

From Salon • Mar. 31, 2019

Arguably this is a misconstruction of the county prerogative.

From Washington Times • Aug. 22, 2017

Matthew Frye Jacobson, a professor of American studies, history and African-American studies at Yale, said that FIRE’s spin, and the subsequent storm of media coverage, was “a complete misconstruction of what happened.”

From New York Times • Aug. 1, 2016

It was well that he ceased speaking, for what he had just said proved to be open to misconstruction, and if he had said any more he would have spoiled it.

From The Mardi Gras Mystery by Bedford-Jones, H. (Henry)