misapprehend

Example Sentences

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This alienation breeds a twisted utopian mentality that not only rejects modernity, but also tradition and the actual past in favor of a cartoonish pastiche that misapprehends both the past and the present.

From Salon

These innovations represent an encroachment of the secular, misapprehending America’s pastime as a way to merely “pass” the time.

From Los Angeles Times

Rehearing a case is an option for the court when someone contends justices “overlooked or misapprehended” facts or laws, but it’s only happened two other times in the past 30 years, according to one justice.

From Seattle Times

But they can be granted based on arguments that the justices “overlooked or misapprehended” facts or laws.

From Seattle Times

Schrader counters that McLeod-Skinner, who has the support of Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren and other forces on the left, is the one who misapprehends the moment.

From Los Angeles Times