misapprehend
Example Sentences
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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
Such proposals misapprehend the role of a judge under the Constitution and undermine public confidence in the Supreme Court and the judiciary generally.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 12, 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
Though the subject be one of unparalleled grandeur, the writer makes not the slightest effort at rhetorical embellishment, but employs language which a mere child cannot misapprehend.
From The Religion of Geology and Its Connected Sciences by Edward Hitchcock
