misread
Example Sentences
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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
Mr. Armitage reminds us that “Gilgamesh” is less a singular artifact than a long, fragmented transmission—spoken, inscribed, shattered, buried, misread, resurrected.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 24, 2026
I confessed to Voorhees that I completely misread the direction this country was heading back when the first Black president in history termed out in 2016.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 8, 2026
Well, I guess I misread things a bit.
From "Thirteen Reasons Why" by Jay Asher
Vocabulary lists containing misread
Florida's B.E.S.T. Common Prefixes: mis-
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