misread
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Even the material restraint—so easy to misread as austerity—proves strategic.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 22, 2026
“He misread the policy and he got me very excited,” she said.
From MarketWatch ● May 13, 2026
Yousef Al Otaiba, the country's ambassador to the US, said suggestions that the country requires external financial backing "misread the facts".
From BBC ● May 6, 2026
With the stock well off its record levels, I misread that.
From Barron's ● May 4, 2026
He felt that he was still groping in the dark; he had chosen his path but kept looking back, wondering whether he had misread the signs, whether he should not have taken the other way.
From "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" by J.K. Rowling
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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
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Beyond this dispute, there sits a fundamental misreading by each side of its enemy.
From BBC ● Jul. 14, 2026
But the president may be misreading this moment.
From Salon ● Jul. 7, 2026
That is a completely ridiculous misreading of this speech.
From Slate ● Apr. 17, 2026
For investors, the risk lies in misreading this moment as cyclical belt-tightening rather than structural repositioning.
From Barron's ● Mar. 7, 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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