misapprehension
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Identification of a tonsil-like organ in fish also helps correct a misapprehension about their immune system, Dishaw says.
From Science Magazine • Oct. 31, 2023
“They have lawyers, advisors, and they will be under no misapprehension after their obligations,” he said, adding that these obligations apply to Palestinian militant group Hamas as well.
From Seattle Times • Oct. 29, 2023
We arrived at 19:00 under the foolish misapprehension that I would be whisked in and put on that antibiotic drip pronto.
From BBC • Oct. 28, 2023
Burnett could still chuckle at the memory of her misapprehension as she reminisced last Sunday in an elegant meeting room at the Ritz-Carlton in Tysons in Northern Virginia.
From Washington Post • May 19, 2022
As I conducted Dr. Trefusis back to his shallop, he said to me, “I divine that Bono seems under the misapprehension that...”
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson
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