misinterpret
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What’s more, it’s easy to misinterpret overpricing for part of the market as an indication that everything is a bubble.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 8, 2026
Don’t misinterpret Macdonald and his team’s “we don’t care” mantra.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 8, 2026
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
He can't let it all show up on his face so that they don't misinterpret his expressions.
From "Pride" by Ibi Zoboi
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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
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
Like many of her straight male comedian counterparts, she misinterprets their attention as flirting.
From Salon ● May 27, 2022
Olly misinterprets my shiver and steps close to me to add his towel to my shoulders.
From "Everything, Everything" by Nicola Yoon
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Taking multiple medications increases the opportunity for a side effect to be misinterpreted as a separate diagnosis.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 11, 2026
“It’s still an evolution, but iterations thanks to technology development are going so fast that it may be misinterpreted as a revolutionary approach,” said Gen. Michael Claesson, Sweden’s chief of defense.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 7, 2026
“In his zealous and highly scrutinized representation, Dershowitz made a spontaneous series of remarks before Congress that, he says, were misinterpreted by pundits,” Judge Britt Grant, a Trump appointee wrote for the 11th Circuit Court.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 29, 2026
Chatfield said her old video had been misinterpreted and she had not called for any political violence against Donald Trump.
From BBC ● May 12, 2026
In her childhood her father had never misinterpreted her, nor bobbled once, except when she was eleven and came home to dinner from school one day and found that her blood had begun to flow.
From "Go Set a Watchman: A Novel" by Harper Lee
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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
On Friday he took to social media to criticize “the usual idiots misinterpreting a Post article on Mets payroll.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 22, 2025
This means geneticists will need to update their tools to avoid misinterpreting results.
From Science Daily ● Dec. 3, 2025
But in recent times teachers have been expressing growing concerns about some local authorities and schools misinterpreting the nurture principles by removing all or any consequences.
From BBC ● Jun. 18, 2025
“Oh dear, I hope you’re not too offended,” the dog continued, misinterpreting my silence.
From "Hollow City" by Ransom Riggs
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