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For empathy not to misfire in the policy sphere, he contends, we need a “cultural theory of mind,” where “one culture puts itself in the mind of another culture.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 10, 2026

In some cases the monitors that measure sewage spills can misfire but if the regulator does find these incidents occurred it will take enforcement action, it said.

From BBC ● Mar. 26, 2026

There is no other known evidence to support the misfire claim.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 6, 2026

Discovery three years ago was a misfire that eroded the value of some of the industry’s most premium brands.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 28, 2025

Anyone who knows anything about firearms will tell you that a 9mm handgun cannot misfire in the way that gun did.

From "Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood" by Trevor Noah

Even if Pangram misfires on a given op-ed, the study’s broader pattern—that A.I. use is showing up across major newspaper opinion pages, his own included—is impossible to argue with.

From Slate ● Apr. 17, 2026

Intel has had strategic misfires for decades, Meeks said, and government support won’t be enough to save it.

From Barron's ● Mar. 25, 2026

An Oxford-educated philosopher from rural Scotland, Askell spends her days learning Claude’s reasoning patterns and talking to the AI model, building its personality and addressing its misfires with long prompts.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 13, 2026

For each of those successes, there are several messy misfires: The wan camp of “The Politician.”

From Salon ● Feb. 12, 2026

“Don’t be so sure—and don’t be so hard on yourself, kid. The transporter misfires now and again, but Ma don’t make mistakes. Could be this is all part of her plan.”

From "Dragons in a Bag" by Zetta Elliott

Early on, a photograph of a U-shaped smoke trail circulated on social media along with the now-debunked claim that an Iranian missile misfired and hit the school.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 6, 2026

And having misfired of late, polls suggest that Japan's first woman Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi might manage to bring back the glory days with a thumping election win on Sunday.

From Barron's ● Feb. 6, 2026

Cohen says that progressives have misfired in their decision to challenge him.

From Salon ● Oct. 14, 2025

Abbie Ward was pinged for a needless offside and the line-out misfired, with three going astray in the first half.

From BBC ● Sep. 6, 2025

We took on the disguise in order to present an understandable motive if our plan to capture you had misfired.

From Forever by Dick Francis

Brainwashing isn’t enough: “To turn you into a willful collaborator, I need to also attack your emotional system. Empathy is an adaptive virtue. Suicidal empathy is the misfiring of this adaptive process.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 10, 2026

Vance has been repeatedly ratioed on X ever since, a small but telling sign that the usual outrage machine is misfiring.

From Salon ● Jan. 14, 2026

For once, fortune favoured Sri Lanka, whose campaign had been marred by rain, missed chances and misfiring batters.

From Barron's ● Oct. 20, 2025

New York finally got on the scoreboard when the previously misfiring Fitzpatrick knocked a 70ft chip to gimme range on the ninth.

From BBC ● Jan. 8, 2025

The best man’s speech can provide a caricatured instance of decorum misfiring.

From "Words Like Loaded Pistols" by Sam Leith