misinterpret
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"It was more about me being excited about the game, which I think people started to misinterpret as being absolute promises. And I wasn't smart enough to realise that."
From BBC ● Apr. 21, 2026
It may omit relevant information while summarizing, mix up who is speaking and misinterpret context—such as missing nonverbal cues.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 5, 2025
It’s easy for students to misunderstand and misinterpret college award letters that specify the financial aid they will receive.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 31, 2025
Did “Walter Bloomberg” merely misinterpret a Fox News clip?
From Slate ● Apr. 8, 2025
Mandarax had been known to garble or misinterpret quest instructions and cues, which could easily lead to fatal mistakes.
From "Ready Player One: A Novel" by Ernest Cline
The court "misunderstands FIFRA's requirement, misinterprets the scope of FIFRA's preemption and ultimately leaves Durness without a remedy for the significant harms he has suffered."
From Barron's ● Jun. 25, 2026
Bentley introduced a detective who misinterprets the clues made available to the reader; his solution is proven wrong even though the same clues yield the correct answer.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 20, 2026
But that misinterprets why people bothered to read about McCain when she topped the discourse mountain — she's a terrific adversary.
From Salon ● Oct. 27, 2023
The new research, Wen says, misinterprets these changes as caused by the core’s spin rather than to its fluctuating surface.
From Scientific American ● Jan. 25, 2023
Olly misinterprets my shiver and steps close to me to add his towel to my shoulders.
From "Everything, Everything" by Nicola Yoon
She later said the comments had been misinterpreted.
From Barron's ● Jul. 6, 2026
“Now, because audiences can be so polarized, when you send out a message, you’ve really got to think about not only ‘How can this be interpreted?’ but also ‘How can this be misinterpreted?’
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 8, 2026
It was England who misinterpreted an on-field offside decision, causing a goal for Liverpool's Luis Diaz to be wrongly disallowed at Tottenham.
From BBC ● May 10, 2026
This could be especially helpful when individual signals are weak, unclear, or easily misinterpreted.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 15, 2026
She denounced it as a “hodgepodge of plagiarism pulled from here, a bit from there, the whole misinterpreted and sensationalized to give color to the red-flag word SPIES.”
From "The Woman All Spies Fear" by Amy Butler Greenfield
Ritholtz does exactly that, running through such surefire ways to wreck your wealth as ignoring taxes, paying excessive fees, misinterpreting data, overreacting to short-term trends, and trading too much.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 14, 2026
However, California State Parks said that plaintiffs’ attorneys are misinterpreting that passage.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 27, 2025
This means geneticists will need to update their tools to avoid misinterpreting results.
From Science Daily ● Dec. 3, 2025
In its court submission, Meta said its "primary concern" was with the data commission, which it accused of "misinterpreting" data privacy laws.
From BBC ● May 2, 2025
The school counselor told me this was part of the ADHD, my brain misinterpreting things.
From "The Lightning Thief" by Rick Riordan
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