misdirect

Campbell appealed, saying one of her fellow trustees, lawyer Bianka Hellmich, forged her signature and impersonated her using a fake email address to misdirect money that was intended for the charity.

From BBC ● Oct. 1, 2026

Suspecting Al-Nourji of trying to misdirect them, the police held him for questioning.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 30, 2026

So juxtaposing that line with footage of the adult Yellowjackets being threatened with evidence of their shared past — again — could be a misdirect.

From Salon ● Feb. 10, 2025

We can’t afford to let the banks misdirect us again.

From Slate ● Mar. 22, 2024

She initially attempted to misdirect the officer and the investigators in an effort to protect her privacy.

From "Just Mercy" by Bryan Stevenson

All these moments compensate for the softer corners this season manifested in the usual physical farce and misdirects, and the questionable choice to make Andrea Martin's Joy as campily vivacious as she comes across.

From Salon ● Aug. 8, 2023

Elmohamady down the right wing and his cross is decent, Samatta climbs highest but misdirects his header.

From The Guardian ● Jul. 12, 2020

He dazzles and misdirects, prods and pokes, changes topics midsentence and frequently offers claims that are on their face so bizarre that they demand repetition by the media, if only to be discounted.

From Washington Post ● Oct. 24, 2019

My brother and I worked really hard in the writing to answer all the questions for ourselves, but then to create all these misdirects for the audience.

From The Verge ● Oct. 18, 2019

Without it he misdirects his own movements, and mistakes continually the orders of his superintending workman.

From In the School-Room Chapters in the Philosophy of Education by John S. (John Seely) Hart

But, if he wrote to prove genius as a prognosticator, it’s a misdirected column.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 19, 2026

They also said the judge misdirected the jury about evidence from another of the participants.

From BBC ● Jul. 24, 2026

That wasn’t an act of misdirected reverence but a refusal of reverence.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 16, 2026

"This was... a race against the clock, as it was critical that we locate the downed aviator as quickly as possible, while at the same time keeping our enemies misdirected," Ratcliffe told the news conference.

From Barron's ● Apr. 6, 2026

By then we knew that all my previous fuss about the importance of Mg++ ions was misdirected.

From "Double Helix" by James D. Watson

However, in July 2025, the Supreme Court decided that all the judges had erred, misdirecting juries that it was wrong as a matter of law.

From BBC ● Oct. 9, 2026

In the heat-soaked world of Marty Hart and Rust Cohle, creepiness was an affectation — part misdirecting figment, part metaphor.

From Salon ● Feb. 5, 2024

Furious, Strowger blamed the operators for misdirecting calls meant for him to his competitors, and set about inventing a bias-free, electromechanical machine to replace them.

From Seattle Times ● Jan. 26, 2024

In a 2013 lawsuit, Harry accused Daniel of misdirecting $6.5 million in corporate funds “for the purpose of advancing the international cart racing activities” of his sons, Logan and Dalton; that litigation was eventually settled.

From New York Times ● May 13, 2023

But Kronos was always fooling us, misdirecting our attention.

From "The Last Olympian" by Rick Riordan