misdirect

Campbell appealed, saying one of her fellow trustees, lawyer Bianka Hellmich, forged her signature and impersonated her using a fake email address to misdirect money that was intended for the charity.

From BBC ● Oct. 1, 2026

I do want them to reflect on it, worry about it, think about it and then, I’ve got to misdirect them.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 27, 2025

We can’t afford to let the banks misdirect us again.

From Slate ● Mar. 22, 2024

“Baylor’s focus of media attention on football tried to misdirect attention from institutional failures of the Baylor administration. Our clients would have none of that,” Dunn said.

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 18, 2023

But to successfully ignore those reports and misdirect people into thinking the problem was under control?

From "Dry" by Neal Shusterman and Jarrod Shusterman

Then there are the hysterical, bizarre misdirects of Adult Swim’s 2022 “Yule Log” and its 2024 sequel “Yule Log 2: Branchin’ Out,” both on HBO Max.

From Salon ● Dec. 18, 2025

My brother and I worked really hard in the writing to answer all the questions for ourselves, but then to create all these misdirects for the audience.

From The Verge ● Oct. 18, 2019

A master magician with words, Deaver misdirects with one tale while what's really going on is just off the reader's radar.

From Seattle Times ● Jun. 3, 2013

The Colts were not going to trade that pick, and despite Jim Irsay’s misdirects, they weren’t going to take Griffin.

From Washington Post ● Aug. 20, 2012

Without it he misdirects his own movements, and mistakes continually the orders of his superintending workman.

From In the School-Room Chapters in the Philosophy of Education by John S. (John Seely) Hart

Defence lawyers argued on appeal that they had been misdirected and reached a verdict which went against the weight of expert evidence.

From BBC ● Oct. 2, 2026

But, if he wrote to prove genius as a prognosticator, it’s a misdirected column.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 19, 2026

That wasn’t an act of misdirected reverence but a refusal of reverence.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 16, 2026

If AI was used, he argued that the key question is "how old was the data" used for the targeting, and whether the misdirected strike stemmed from "a database error".

From Barron's ● Mar. 7, 2026

He must have allied with Balekin, misdirected Dain’s spies.

From "The Cruel Prince" by Holly Black

"That gets worse in the summer when the water is moving slowly, and some of that is historic, but also a contemporary misdirecting of sewage into storm drains."

From BBC ● Sep. 30, 2026

Last Wednesday, TikTok creators, finding none of the mayhem they expected to see in Springfield, started suggesting that faith-based groups working with Haitian immigrants were misdirecting resources.

From Salon ● Feb. 14, 2026

Furious, Strowger blamed the operators for misdirecting calls meant for him to his competitors, and set about inventing a bias-free, electromechanical machine to replace them.

From Seattle Times ● Jan. 26, 2024

In a 2013 lawsuit, Harry accused Daniel of misdirecting $6.5 million in corporate funds “for the purpose of advancing the international cart racing activities” of his sons, Logan and Dalton; that litigation was eventually settled.

From New York Times ● May 13, 2023

I might have been to blame for misdirecting us, but for this, I blame Henry.

From "Dry" by Neal Shusterman and Jarrod Shusterman