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misguide

[mis-gahyd] / mɪsˈgaɪd /






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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

They also cloud and misguide, often creating false — but powerful and entrenched — impressions that can outweigh more objective measures.

From Washington Post • Apr. 21, 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

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

I do believe that my uncle would have made a far less egregious smash if there had been no Napoleonic legend to misguide him.

From Tono Bungay by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)




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