misguide
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Further “speculation on any proposed rule prior to it being published,” he said, “only serves to misguide public discourse and stoke fear in those who rely on disability benefits for economic stability.”
From Salon ● Nov. 2, 2025
As expectations about what these products should detect increase, so too do the opportunities to let them misguide us and cause us to punish or profile innocent people.
From Slate ● Dec. 11, 2023
They also cloud and misguide, often creating false — but powerful and entrenched — impressions that can outweigh more objective measures.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 21, 2023
“The agents guide the people, or misguide them, into going illegally,” Anil Pratham, director of the anti-human trafficking unit of the Gujarat police, said in a telephone interview.
From New York Times ● Mar. 14, 2022
Of all the causes which conspire to blind Man's erring judgment and misguide the mind, What the weak head with strongest bias rules, Is pride, the never-failing vice of fools.
From An Essay on Criticism by Alexander Pope
A former designer of Cheesecake Factory restaurants weighed in, however, to say the joke was misguided.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 28, 2026
It feels misguided to turn public figures like Dr. Anthony Fauci or Sen. Jon Ossoff, D-Ga., into heroes or thirst traps just for doing their jobs.
From Salon ● Sep. 30, 2026
However, Helen Barnard, director of policy and research at the anti-poverty charity Trussell, said the proposals were "deeply misguided".
From BBC ● Sep. 23, 2026
In the weeks leading up to the first Super Bowl at SoFi, there were misguided rumblings that the game might be moved to Dallas, because the NFL had secured that city as a backup.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 6, 2026
The notion that all racial caste systems are necessarily predicated on a desire to harm other racial groups, and that racial hostility is the essence of racism, is fundamentally misguided.
From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander
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"We continue to do that and covering it up or misguiding the Environment Agency in any way is absolutely no part of that performance."
From BBC ● Dec. 4, 2023
Hamilton said: "It is unacceptable, cowardly and misguiding for those in power to suggest such a law."
From BBC ● Jul. 29, 2021
PSG players celebrated with enthusiasm in front of their fans but the exuberance was somewhat misplaced and also misguiding.
From Washington Times ● Oct. 19, 2016
Result: potentially terribly misguiding images of events going around the world.
From New York Times ● Feb. 5, 2010
The misguided ideas of a misguided leader who in turn was misguiding his army and his people.
From "The Light in Hidden Places" by Sharon Cameron
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