misunderstanding

The magnitude of the misunderstanding shocked him: These supposedly diversified piles of consumer loans now consisted almost entirely of U.S. subprime mortgages.

For centuries, depictions of the plague racing along the Silk Route, devastating cities and towns in its path, have been based on a misunderstanding of a rhyming story rather than a historical record.

"All the other governments prefer to continue the war because many of them think that Ukraine can win on the front line, which is a misunderstanding of the situation."

Tuchman’s book describes how the world’s great powers, through a series of misunderstandings, stumbled into the First World War.

But Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev said in October that "past misunderstandings between the two countries have been resolved" after meeting Macron in Copenhagen.