misinterpretations

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In many cases, especially in Tennessee, police are charging students for jokes and misinterpretations, drawing criticism from families and school violence prevention experts who believe a measured approach is more appropriate.

From Salon • Jul. 29, 2025

Such misinterpretations can impair scientists' conclusions about global temperatures, the thickness of an atmosphere, and other planetary conditions, Hörst said.

From Science Daily • Nov. 27, 2023

The governor said he agreed with the separate 2018 ruling protecting homeless people with nowhere else to go, but said the Grants Pass ruling had done little to “disabuse” misinterpretations of that standard.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 28, 2023

The Fed vice chair also traditionally serves as the Fed chief's go-to official on policy communications, underscoring key messages and clarifying potential misinterpretations.

From Reuters • Sep. 6, 2023

Wiener has proposed, on intuitive grounds, that defects and misinterpretations in such a communication system may be an unexplored territory for psychiatry.

From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas