misdirect
Example Sentences
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We can’t afford to let the banks misdirect us again.
From Slate • Mar. 22, 2024
We can misdirect in a way that what you’re seeing is science fiction or about AI, but that’s not really what it is at all.”
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 6, 2023
“Baylor’s focus of media attention on football tried to misdirect attention from institutional failures of the Baylor administration. Our clients would have none of that,” Dunn said.
From Seattle Times • Sep. 18, 2023
Catlett plays Lucky with menace at first — a misdirect that is just as much about the audience’s assumptions as it is his own character’s evolution.
From Washington Post • Mar. 29, 2023
If that was so, then I was partly to blame, for I had distracted the cannoneer and caused him to misdirect the shot.
From "The Shakespeare Stealer" by Gary L. Blackwood
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