misdirect
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He said Mr Justice Bright did misdirect the jury about the waiver, but only on it being potentially "decisive" if it were a civil trial instead of a criminal one.
From BBC ● Jul. 24, 2026
I do want them to reflect on it, worry about it, think about it and then, I’ve got to misdirect them.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 27, 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
“Somehow we think it is funny to misdirect people and we don’t smile when we do it, but we laugh inwardly. It is our nature.”
From "Travels with Charley in Search of America" by John Steinbeck
She misdirects him to an empty stall, then slips out behind him and pulls the door shut, using her whole body to prevent him from opening it.
From Salon ● Mar. 22, 2025
Elmohamady down the right wing and his cross is decent, Samatta climbs highest but misdirects his header.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 12, 2020
My brother and I worked really hard in the writing to answer all the questions for ourselves, but then to create all these misdirects for the audience.
From The Verge ● Oct. 18, 2019
A master magician with words, Deaver misdirects with one tale while what's really going on is just off the reader's radar.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 3, 2013
He confuses and so far misdirects the sympathies in issues which strictly are at once moral and dramatic.
From Robert Louis Stevenson: a record, an estimate, and a memorial by Alexander H. (Alexander Hay) Japp
If AI was used, he argued that the key question is "how old was the data" used for the targeting, and whether the misdirected strike stemmed from "a database error".
From Barron's ● Mar. 7, 2026
By the time couples notice, the pressure is already there, and it often gets misdirected at each other.
From MarketWatch ● Feb. 20, 2026
Rather than reflecting a loss of control due to runaway habits, some compulsive behaviors may result from excessive, though misdirected, deliberate control.
From Science Daily ● Feb. 16, 2026
No one can read without delight Norman’s exposure of the pursuit of money, power and fame—which is flawed only when misdirected and ridiculous only when denied.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 18, 2025
Ethan is not in the courtyard as promised, but after several misdirected attempts, I eventually find him at the lavanderia, the ancient washing basins next to the gardens.
From "The Adoration of Jenna Fox" by Mary E. Pearson
Last Wednesday, TikTok creators, finding none of the mayhem they expected to see in Springfield, started suggesting that faith-based groups working with Haitian immigrants were misdirecting resources.
From Salon ● Feb. 14, 2026
“The inevitable outcome is an undermining of the broader missions of science and public health and the misdirecting of resources and effort,” they wrote.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 28, 2025
Furious, Strowger blamed the operators for misdirecting calls meant for him to his competitors, and set about inventing a bias-free, electromechanical machine to replace them.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 26, 2024
In a 2013 lawsuit, Harry accused Daniel of misdirecting $6.5 million in corporate funds “for the purpose of advancing the international cart racing activities” of his sons, Logan and Dalton; that litigation was eventually settled.
From New York Times ● May 13, 2023
Deliberately misdirecting a call would not be an infraction, it would be grounds for dismissal.
From "The Brightwood Code" by Monica Hesse
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