misread
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Investors misread the mood music on U.S.-Canadian trade talks, in a big way.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 25, 2026
The machines still stumble, pause, misread objects and often work best in controlled environments.
From MarketWatch ● May 27, 2026
Even the material restraint—so easy to misread as austerity—proves strategic.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 22, 2026
In the fifth, Jung Hoo Lee hit an inside-the-park home run when Hernández misread the ball off the left-field wall in foul territory, allowing the ball to roll past him.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 15, 2026
When the power cut out, the system had misread the signal as a steam leak.
From "Meltdown" by Deirdre Langeland
Interest rates: Warsh has argued that the Fed misreads inflation by relying on models that treat strong growth as inflationary and on data that lags behind by months.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 21, 2026
He misreads my face and says, “Try to remember that tennis is play! Just relax and don’t think.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 15, 2024
It did not help that a couple of misreads meant he did not get to one through ball and Alejandro Garnacho failed to react to one of his.
From BBC ● Dec. 9, 2023
“There were some misreads and misfires by me. Just been working on that stuff as much as possible,” Zappe said.
From Washington Times ● Dec. 5, 2023
Soojin quickly glances at me, but either misreads my face or ignores it.
From "Amina's Voice" by Hena Khan
OpenAI’s challenges in trying to regain its crown are rooted in an earlier misreading by company leaders of where the AI market was headed.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 1, 2026
But that base may be fully misreading the situation.
From Slate ● Apr. 9, 2026
For investors, the risk lies in misreading this moment as cyclical belt-tightening rather than structural repositioning.
From Barron's ● Mar. 7, 2026
That mutual awareness may provide some reassurance, but it could also create dangerous misperceptions, with each side potentially overestimating its leverage or misreading the opponent's intentions.
From BBC ● Jan. 30, 2026
The apparent textual anomalies are artifacts, products of misreading.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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Florida's B.E.S.T. Common Prefixes: mis-
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