misread
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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
“He misread the policy and he got me very excited,” she said.
From MarketWatch ● May 13, 2026
With the stock well off its record levels, I misread that.
From Barron's ● May 4, 2026
It seemed I had misread the situation between Sohrab and Ali-Reza, who had acted like friends, but were clearly engaged in some sort of personal vendetta that could only be settled through soccer/non-American football.
From "Darius the Great Is Not Okay" by Adib Khorram
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 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
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
Beyond this dispute, there sits a fundamental misreading by each side of its enemy.
From BBC ● Jul. 14, 2026
That is a completely ridiculous misreading of this speech.
From Slate ● Apr. 17, 2026
However, BOJ policymakers say that this time the context is different for Japan, and they want to avoid falling into the trap of misreading inflation cues and waiting too long to adjust rates.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 16, 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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