misread
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The machines still stumble, pause, misread objects and often work best in controlled environments.
From MarketWatch ● May 27, 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
At the heart of this story are women – two died while others went on to have surgery as their smear tests had been misread for more than a decade.
From BBC ● May 14, 2026
With the stock well off its record levels, I misread that.
From Barron's ● May 4, 2026
A lot of his time was spent denying it, convincing himself he misread Hunter’s words and most of all his look.
From "Jazz" by Toni Morrison
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
But that misreads how “The Late Show” crowd operates.
From Salon ● Dec. 6, 2025
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
These systems are — as has been extensively and embarrassingly documented — prone to generating fabricated citations, misreading evidentiary context and issuing confident-sounding verdicts about matters they fundamentally do not understand.
From Salon ● Apr. 23, 2026
That is a completely ridiculous misreading of this speech.
From Slate ● Apr. 17, 2026
In his criticism of the Pope’s plea for negotiations, Mr. McGurn implies a misreading of Catholic just-war principles.
From The Wall Street Journal ● 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
Then, there were indications she was misreading the actual size of the islands.
From "Native Speaker" by Chang-rae Lee
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