misapprehend

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When Kavanaugh briefly touched on history, it was only to make a comment that seemed to misapprehend its significance here.

From Slate • Dec. 11, 2025

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

The respectable mediocrity of Chapelain might misapprehend him; the lesser geniuses of Scud�ry and Mairet might feel alarm at his advent; the envious Claverets and D’Aubignacs might snarl and scribble.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 4 "Coquelin" to "Costume" by Various