misapprehend

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But cynicism leaves her vulnerable to misapprehending the world and the people in it — including her very online, conspiracy theorist boyfriend.

From New York Times

But this reductionist view misapprehends the wisdom of those who chose to marry the Christian promise with nature’s calendar.

From Washington Post

Tinder, which followed in 2012, “is a scary place,” she writes, misapprehending its purpose as “just about sex — straightforward, fairly anonymous, often pretty-near-instantaneous sex.”

From New York Times

The mix of cool suavity with deep-furnaced ambition has always made Newton a little misapprehended in a league suspicious of playfulness.

From Washington Post

This misapprehends both the nature of crises in general and the particulars of the present emergency.

From New York Times