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
His peculiar function was to go through the career of the proposed saint, to seize upon and magnify every human failing or error, to misconstrue everything that was capable of misconstruction....
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 105, August 5th 1893 by Various
