misread
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Trying to explain the device, and how her claims of its efficacy were misread by investors and the public, Holmes once again can’t translate her thoughts into words that make sense to Fielder.
From Salon ● Oct. 17, 2026
A cool number in Wednesday’s release of the July consumer-price index would relieve pressure on both Warsh personally and a policy committee weighing whether it has misread the U.S. economy.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 11, 2026
A dissent by presiding Justice Alison Tucher concluded the majority misread the proposition, which she said must adhere to the state’s civil rights laws.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 4, 2026
The machines still stumble, pause, misread objects and often work best in controlled environments.
From MarketWatch ● May 27, 2026
At first Luke was nervous he’d misread something—that she really didn’t want to see him wrestle.
From "We'll Fly Away" by Bryan Bliss
Carolina Milanesi, an analyst at Creative Strategies, said that misreads how consumers actually adopt technology.
From Barron's ● Aug. 31, 2026
But Mr. Ferguson misreads the law in going after NewsGuard, a private outfit.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 12, 2026
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 is a slew of misreads or errors that concern me by the public, news media, and others.
From Salon ● Apr. 10, 2023
Sometimes, her anxiety makes her too sensitive and she misreads people.
From "A Heart in a Body in the World" by Deb Caletti
Roblox stock declines as Wall Street believes investors could be misreading the videogame company’s business trajectory.
From Barron's ● Sep. 28, 2026
But where Hwan’s Christianity is a willful, grotesque misreading of the Bible, Latif actively wrestles with his moral shortcomings.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 25, 2026
If that were true, astronomers could have been misreading the supernova data and incorrectly concluding that cosmic expansion was speeding up when it was actually slowing.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 29, 2026
This is a wild misreading of the situation.
From Slate ● Aug. 7, 2026
The apparent textual anomalies are artifacts, products of misreading.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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