misdirect
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He said Mr Justice Bright did misdirect the jury about the waiver, but only on it being potentially "decisive" if it were a civil trial instead of a criminal one.
From BBC ● Jul. 24, 2026
Suspecting Al-Nourji of trying to misdirect them, the police held him for questioning.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 30, 2026
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
If that was so, then I was partly to blame, for I had distracted the cannoneer and caused him to misdirect the shot.
From "The Shakespeare Stealer" by Gary L. Blackwood
She misdirects him to an empty stall, then slips out behind him and pulls the door shut, using her whole body to prevent him from opening it.
From Salon ● Mar. 22, 2025
He dazzles and misdirects, prods and pokes, changes topics midsentence and frequently offers claims that are on their face so bizarre that they demand repetition by the media, if only to be discounted.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 24, 2019
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
He stands at the end, white and glorious, with his eyes steadfastly measuring his antagonist and calculating upon what will be his next move if the sling misdirects the stone.
From A Wanderer in Florence by E. V. (Edward Verrall) Lucas
They also said the judge misdirected the jury about evidence from another of the participants.
From BBC ● Jul. 24, 2026
Today’s critique of land power isn’t entirely wrong, but it is misdirected.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 3, 2026
By the time couples notice, the pressure is already there, and it often gets misdirected at each other.
From MarketWatch ● Feb. 20, 2026
Rather than reflecting a loss of control due to runaway habits, some compulsive behaviors may result from excessive, though misdirected, deliberate control.
From Science Daily ● Feb. 16, 2026
Gale knows his anger at Madge is misdirected.
From "The Hunger Games" by Suzanne Collins
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
The discovery that Ms. Holmes, the tech industry’s most celebrated female entrepreneur, was misdirecting the world about her company marked a turning point in the tech press, ending a decade-long run of largely positive coverage.
From New York Times ● Nov. 18, 2021
Is the talking fox helping him or misdirecting him?
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 7, 2021
I might have been to blame for misdirecting us, but for this, I blame Henry.
From "Dry" by Neal Shusterman and Jarrod Shusterman
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