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misread

[mis-reed] / mɪsˈrid /


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"But I would rather be driving home from a game now thinking, 'OK, I misread it live, I've had the opportunity to go to the screen and we've corrected it'."

From BBC ● Nov. 3, 2026

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

Investors misread the mood music on U.S.-Canadian trade talks, in a big way.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 25, 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

At this critical moment, Gordievsky managed to persuade his MI6 contacts that the Soviets had misread NATO's intentions.

From "Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia" by Marc Favreau

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

His defense has also slipped, with misreads in center becoming concerningly more common.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 6, 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

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

Then, there were indications she was misreading the actual size of the islands.

From "Native Speaker" by Chang-rae Lee


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