misapprehend
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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
So many coaches misapprehend the nature of real authority.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 23, 2021
Some people misapprehend it and think of as imitation.
From New York Times ● Nov. 17, 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
"I will not affect, Miss Walladmor, to misapprehend what it is you wish: the prisoner is committed to the soldiers under my command; and you wish me to favor his escape."
From Walladmor: And Now Freely Translated from the German into English. In Two Volumes. Vol. II. by Thomas De Quincey
