misdirect

Example Sentences

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They are so smart, often harder to misdirect, harder to kind of just psychologically go the way that you predict.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 16, 2025

We can’t afford to let the banks misdirect us again.

From Slate • Mar. 22, 2024

“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

It could be an answer to a question or an intentional misdirect, or an expression on their face.

From Salon • Jan. 25, 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