misdirect

Campbell appealed, saying one of her fellow trustees, lawyer Bianka Hellmich, forged her signature and impersonated her using a fake email address to misdirect money that was intended for the charity.

From BBC ● Oct. 1, 2026

Suspecting Al-Nourji of trying to misdirect them, the police held him for questioning.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 30, 2026

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

From Slate ● Mar. 22, 2024

We wouldn't put it past the artist to have effected a misdirect about anything made public, which would be just another opportunity to make a subversive statement.

From Salon ● Nov. 23, 2023

But to successfully ignore those reports and misdirect people into thinking the problem was under control?

From "Dry" by Neal Shusterman and Jarrod Shusterman

All these moments compensate for the softer corners this season manifested in the usual physical farce and misdirects, and the questionable choice to make Andrea Martin's Joy as campily vivacious as she comes across.

From Salon ● Aug. 8, 2023

He dazzles and misdirects, prods and pokes, changes topics midsentence and frequently offers claims that are on their face so bizarre that they demand repetition by the media, if only to be discounted.

From Washington Post ● Oct. 24, 2019

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

It seems to me, on the contrary, to be a harmful one, inasmuch as it misdirects the mind of a people, already little open to pure artistic emotion, as to the special function of Art.

From The Life, Letters and Work of Frederic Leighton Volume II by Mrs. Russell Barrington

But, if he wrote to prove genius as a prognosticator, it’s a misdirected column.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 19, 2026

Some are Ukrainian drones misdirected by Russian electronic warfare.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 8, 2026

They also said the judge misdirected the jury about evidence from another of the participants.

From BBC ● Jul. 24, 2026

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

But misdirected rage is not an easy thing to hold on to; the last sparks of it get snuffed out, as they deserve to be, in the icy waters of humiliation and defeat.

From "Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America" by Barbara Ehrenreich

"That gets worse in the summer when the water is moving slowly, and some of that is historic, but also a contemporary misdirecting of sewage into storm drains."

From BBC ● Sep. 30, 2026

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

But Kronos was always fooling us, misdirecting our attention.

From "The Last Olympian" by Rick Riordan