misapprehend
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Americans, who usually think the world revolves around economics, consistently misapprehend how revolutionaries embrace tumult.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 23, 2026
So many coaches misapprehend the nature of real authority.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 23, 2021
“Arguments that it isn’t possible to live without meat—implicitly, because of the role that meat played in human evolution—dramatically misapprehend the relationship between biology and destiny,” Berson writes.
From Slate ● Nov. 5, 2019
They misapprehend the war by looking back only a few decades.
From New York Times ● Jan. 20, 2012
I must not leave you to misapprehend me as Halenath has done.
From One Snowy Night Long ago at Oxford by M. (Madelaine) Irwin
