misguide
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As expectations about what these products should detect increase, so too do the opportunities to let them misguide us and cause us to punish or profile innocent people.
From Slate ● Dec. 11, 2023
“The agents guide the people, or misguide them, into going illegally,” Anil Pratham, director of the anti-human trafficking unit of the Gujarat police, said in a telephone interview.
From New York Times ● Mar. 14, 2022
Don’t let the instant success stories of the past decade misguide you.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 30, 2021
The words lingered as he drove me home in silence, forming the genesis of a mantra that would frequently misguide me as I transformed myself into an Everything But Girl.
From Salon ● Feb. 10, 2013
"If I be too long away, he will move without my words to misguide him."
From Ambrotox and Limping Dick by Fleming, Oliver
The inquiry criticised that policy as a "misguided attempt at prioritisation" that "embedded unfairness in emergency procurement".
From BBC ● Jul. 14, 2026
That doesn’t mean, however, that the gaming enthusiasts who’ve made such an uproar online are to be easily dismissed, or that they’re wrong about why this is a misguided business move in the long term.
From Slate ● Jul. 7, 2026
“It’s Florida, Man,” HBO Max “What you’re about to see may be dangerous, illegal, unethical, petty, misguided, immoral and most definitely stupid,” a prologue warns at the top of each episode.
From Salon ● Jul. 1, 2026
Now a new group of fail-sons takes center stage on Sunday nights: the misguided male youth of “Game of Thrones” spinoff “House of the Dragon.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 22, 2026
I had allowed myself to believe that the people who had prosecuted Walter were just misguided, possibly incompetent.
From "Just Mercy" by Bryan Stevenson
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"We continue to do that and covering it up or misguiding the Environment Agency in any way is absolutely no part of that performance."
From BBC ● Dec. 4, 2023
PSG players celebrated with enthusiasm in front of their fans but the exuberance was somewhat misplaced and also misguiding.
From Washington Times ● Oct. 19, 2016
We all feel as if we have been entirely by-passed and badly misled and in so being have been misguiding those who have sought and heeded our advice.
From BBC ● Jun. 29, 2011
Result: potentially terribly misguiding images of events going around the world.
From New York Times ● Feb. 5, 2010
The misguided ideas of a misguided leader who in turn was misguiding his army and his people.
From "The Light in Hidden Places" by Sharon Cameron
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