misread
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Yousef Al Otaiba, the country's ambassador to the US, said suggestions that the country requires external financial backing "misread the facts".
From BBC • May 6, 2026
With the stock well off its record levels, I misread that.
From Barron's • May 4, 2026
Mr. Armitage reminds us that “Gilgamesh” is less a singular artifact than a long, fragmented transmission—spoken, inscribed, shattered, buried, misread, resurrected.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 24, 2026
“When shows come back after a gap, they can misread what audiences connected to in the first place,” she said.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 9, 2026
He felt that he was still groping in the dark; he had chosen his path but kept looking back, wondering whether he had misread the signs, whether he should not have taken the other way.
From "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" by J.K. Rowling
Vocabulary lists containing misread
Florida's B.E.S.T. Common Prefixes: mis-
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