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misread

[mis-reed] / mɪsˈrid /


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“I think a lot of advisers misread the percentages and the message that goes with them,” Goldie said.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 2, 2026

Some were men who, like him, were misunderstood or misread, and Mr. Fukuyama writes of them as kindred spirits.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 8, 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

The machines still stumble, pause, misread objects and often work best in controlled environments.

From MarketWatch ● May 27, 2026

I watched a whole afternoon unfold under my nose, and I misread everything that was happening, from start to finish.

From "Girl in the Blue Coat" by Monica Hesse

Carolina Milanesi, an analyst at Creative Strategies, said that misreads how consumers actually adopt technology.

From Barron's ● Aug. 31, 2026

But that misreads an endnote: As I make clear in the text, the number refers specifically to German casualties during the first three months of Operation Barbarossa.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 29, 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

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

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 6, 2023

Soojin quickly glances at me, but either misreads my face or ignores it.

From "Amina's Voice" by Hena Khan

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

That’s an incredibly risky midterm bet, based on a potentially fatal misreading of the data.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 10, 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

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

From "Native Speaker" by Chang-rae Lee




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