misunderstand
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Hopefully Hollywood won’t misunderstand the lesson in those projects’ success.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 19, 2026
We also discovered—without too much surprise—that he often seems to fundamentally misunderstand the works he treasures most deeply.
From Slate ● Jun. 11, 2026
And if AI agents are not kept on course by a human, they could misunderstand an instruction and wander down an errant processing path, resulting in a business paying for wasted computing power.
From Barron's ● Mar. 30, 2026
Doctors say many patients misunderstand the role of the drugs.
From BBC ● Mar. 17, 2026
“And yours,” he replied with a smile, “is willfully to misunderstand them.”
From "Pride and Prejudice" by Jane Austen
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For Barton, the red card illustrates something he believes the public still misunderstands: VAR does not eliminate the need for the referee to interpret the rules.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 10, 2026
The court "misunderstands FIFRA's requirement, misinterprets the scope of FIFRA's preemption and ultimately leaves Durness without a remedy for the significant harms he has suffered."
From Barron's ● Jun. 25, 2026
It’s hard to describe how profoundly that misunderstands what the military ought to be.
From Slate ● Jun. 16, 2026
De Zylva argues this misunderstands the point: "The purpose of the green belt isn't to be green per se, it is to be a buffer to prevent sprawl."
From BBC ● Apr. 22, 2026
The evidence is clear: not only does della Porta echo Garzoni’s words, but he misunderstands some of the experiments he claims to have performed, and so misreports them.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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Campbell explained that second-generation Irish identity is often misunderstood, with artistic expressions of that heritage frequently provoking mixed reactions.
From BBC ● Aug. 5, 2026
The man who once said he would like to be “the King of Football” has often conducted himself as the organization’s sole executive, believing that any opponents simply misunderstood his purpose.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 1, 2026
But I do think many have collectively misunderstood his apparent message of regret.
From Slate ● Jul. 31, 2026
"So really it's a misunderstood hotbed of feminist advancement - because it disguised its purposes so carefully."
From BBC ● Jul. 23, 2026
I gave the woman fifty centimes to make a tip, and she gave me back the copper piece, thinking I had misunderstood the price.
From "The Sun Also Rises" by Ernest Hemingway
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MarketWatch: What is happening with the Federal Reserve that investors may be misunderstanding?
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 17, 2026
Or did Walker turn a misunderstanding at the gate into a viral story?
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 12, 2026
Unlike the incident involving OpenAI's technology, Anthropic's models had access to the internet "due to a misunderstanding between us and our evaluation partner," called Irregular, Anthropic said in a blog post.
From Barron's ● Jul. 31, 2026
“From that point of view, it becomes a more serious story, and it goes beyond misunderstanding to something more worrying.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 31, 2026
He brushed off the question when I asked what he was in for—an argument, a misunderstanding, he muttered.
From "Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing" by Ted Conover
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