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misapprehend

[mis-ap-ri-hend] / ˌmɪs æp rɪˈhɛnd /


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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

“Dr. Grey, you grievously misapprehend the whole matter, for my work reminds me of what Canova once said of West’s pictures, ‘He groups; he does not compose.’”

From Vashti or, Until Death Us Do Part by Augusta J. Evans Wilson


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