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But some users find that much like the models they’re built on—which can hallucinate, misinterpret or even commit spontaneous acts of cybercrime—their assistants, too, can behave unpredictably.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026

Derakhshan advises not to focus in on people's faces when presenting, as we can misinterpret their reactions.

From BBC ● Oct. 5, 2026

Parents can answer questions about their child — such as in the National Survey of Children’s Health — but can be biased or misinterpret questions, especially if English isn’t their first language.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 5, 2026

It’s easy for students to misunderstand and misinterpret college award letters that specify the financial aid they will receive.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 31, 2025

Mandarax had been known to garble or misinterpret quest instructions and cues, which could easily lead to fatal mistakes.

From "Ready Player One: A Novel" by Ernest Cline

A superintelligent AI system that ignores human goals or misinterprets commands could, naysayers say, scramble people’s bank accounts, disrupt essential water and power supplies, or take over missile-launch systems.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 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

Bentley introduced a detective who misinterprets the clues made available to the reader; his solution is proven wrong even though the same clues yield the correct answer.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 20, 2026

But that misinterprets why people bothered to read about McCain when she topped the discourse mountain — she's a terrific adversary.

From Salon ● Oct. 27, 2023

Olly misinterprets my shiver and steps close to me to add his towel to my shoulders.

From "Everything, Everything" by Nicola Yoon

Taking multiple medications increases the opportunity for a side effect to be misinterpreted as a separate diagnosis.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 11, 2026

Like “Born in the U.S.A.” and “Rockin’ in the Free World,” “Pink Houses” was practically destined to be misinterpreted by elected salesmen peddling easy fantasies.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 10, 2026

She later said the comments had been misinterpreted.

From Barron's ● Jul. 6, 2026

Lines of dialogue are followed by explanatory glosses, like the captions beneath photographs, so that they cannot be misinterpreted.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 29, 2026

In her childhood her father had never misinterpreted her, nor bobbled once, except when she was eleven and came home to dinner from school one day and found that her blood had begun to flow.

From "Go Set a Watchman: A Novel" by Harper Lee

Ritholtz does exactly that, running through such surefire ways to wreck your wealth as ignoring taxes, paying excessive fees, misinterpreting data, overreacting to short-term trends, and trading too much.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 14, 2026

On Friday he took to social media to criticize “the usual idiots misinterpreting a Post article on Mets payroll.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 22, 2025

This means geneticists will need to update their tools to avoid misinterpreting results.

From Science Daily ● Dec. 3, 2025

This greatly enhances the possibility of misinterpreting the data, leading researchers to cite significant differences between groups being compared when in fact there are no differences.

From Salon ● May 9, 2024

Since there are serious consequences to misinterpreting these statements as absolute laws, a responsible writer should insert a qualifier like on average or all things being equal, together with a slightly or somewhat.

From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker