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
Catlett plays Lucky with menace at first — a misdirect that is just as much about the audience’s assumptions as it is his own character’s evolution.
From Washington Post • Mar. 29, 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
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