misspell
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In his original message to Claude, he even managed to misspell the name Riemann.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 15, 2026
Toczylowski said federal agents sometimes misspell the name of the person they are booking into custody.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 22, 2025
He added that "typo-squatting" - a type of cyber-crime that targets users who incorrectly misspell an internet domain - is common.
From BBC ● Jul. 17, 2023
Among the words Ms. Bolden spelled correctly were prejudice, persevere, misspell and embarrass.
From New York Times ● Jun. 1, 2023
Never in my life have I known Metias to misspell anything.
From "Legend" by Marie Lu
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He accidentally misspells Orlando as "Ornaldo", before apologising to all the "perfect brothers and sisters out there" for his mistake – all while staring blankly into the camera.
From BBC ● Jul. 11, 2026
Cinc, a real estate lead generation platform, offers agents an AI-powered digital assistant that purposefully misspells words and uses emojis to make interactions with potential leads appear more human.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 14, 2024
One of the four designs for the card misspells the word “official.”
From Washington Post ● Aug. 6, 2021
A sobering travelogue through the world of maternal health care, yes, but it also misspells “Bosnia and Herzegovina.”
From Slate ● Feb. 17, 2020
Some boat owner in Florida misspells “Grandma” and look what happens: a myth is bom, a province is renamed, a Communist party newspaper is launched.
From "Dreaming in Cuban" by Cristina García
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“The guy couldn’t spell,” one observer told Hellmann, referring to the misspelled tag, as they walked by.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 31, 2026
Corrections & Amplifications: The name of Venu Krishna, U.S. equity strategist at Barclays, was misspelled in an earlier version of this article.
From Barron's ● Jun. 23, 2026
One password-protected website has the creatively misspelled URL poiymarket.com, which is indistinguishable from polymarket.com when the “i” is capitalized.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 21, 2026
Think of the number of times you have misspelled something, or said the wrong word, and still been understood.
From Science Daily ● May 22, 2026
Maybe he’d misspelled a word in his search request; maybe he just needed to try again.
From "The School for Whatnots" by Margaret Peterson Haddix
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Cobain, who often misspelt his own name, signed the instrument "Kurdt Kobain".
From BBC ● May 21, 2023
Red-faced highways officials have apologised after misspelt road signs directing motorists to non-existent villages were installed on a bypass.
From BBC ● Apr. 7, 2021
Skipping past Christian Fuchs, whose name was rather unfortunately misspelt on the teamsheet, Willmott delivered a terrific cross on the run that exposed Wes Morgan’s poor positioning.
From The Guardian ● Jan. 6, 2019
Xavier Jugelé must have told me his name three times and I had misspelt it each time.
From BBC ● Apr. 22, 2017
There were, as I recall, many misspelt, ill- formed sentences about how much in love the couple were, how wonderful the second footman was, and how marvellous the future was that awaited them both.
From "The Remains of the Day" by Kazuo Ishiguro
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But in another instance, Epstein was critical of misspelling.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 11, 2026
Above him hung a “Moore’s Refishing” sign, a friend’s comical misspelling of the shop’s name.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 16, 2025
They say her note about “Dr. Trumpet” was a misspelling of Dr. Trombka, Sneed’s psychiatrist.
From Slate ● Oct. 9, 2024
“Bragging about acing a cognitive test while forgetting the name of the doctor who gave it to you is like writing on a résumé that you speak three languages and misspelling the word ‘languages.’”
From New York Times ● Jun. 18, 2024
He was also poorly read, seldom wrote his own speeches, and, according to one member of his cabinet, “could not write a sentence without misspelling some word.”
From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis
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