misimpression

Example Sentences

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The eight-hour campaign contributed to the Knights’ massive expansion, which in turn fostered a misimpression that it could launch and win a strike against the railroad network controlled by financier Jay Gould.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 21, 2024

Solicitor General Elizabeth Prelogar wrote that the lawyer was given wrong information by the United States Patent and Trademark Office, adding: “We regret any misimpression inadvertently created by the answer that was given.”

From Washington Times • Jul. 3, 2023

Susan Moss suspects this is a misimpression of prestige.

From Washington Post • Feb. 8, 2023

We New Yorkers also labor under the misimpression that squirrels are rats who get away with it because they have fluffy tails.

From New York Times • Aug. 23, 2022

Huge boulders lent an air of solidity to the place, but the rolling rubble underfoot corrected the misimpression.

From "Into Thin Air" by Jon Krakauer