misconstruction
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But the venture of projecting an album into the future — especially one centered on climate catastrophe — can face its own set of preconceived expectations that can lead to misconstruction.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 17, 2022
Yale historian Matthew Frye Jacobson told the Times, in a story that was otherwise a whitewash of Lukianoff’s FIRE, that the organization’s spin and the media coverage were “a complete misconstruction of what happened.”
From Salon ● Mar. 31, 2019
Arguably this is a misconstruction of the county prerogative.
From Washington Times ● Aug. 22, 2017
Matthew Frye Jacobson, a professor of American studies, history and African-American studies at Yale, said that FIRE’s spin, and the subsequent storm of media coverage, was “a complete misconstruction of what happened.”
From New York Times ● Aug. 1, 2016
You are at liberty to doubt my friendship; but I will not leave my motives open to misconstruction.
From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 3, No. 15, August, 1851 by Various
