misdirect

Example Sentences

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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

Catlett plays Lucky with menace at first — a misdirect that is just as much about the audience’s assumptions as it is his own character’s evolution.

From Washington Post • Mar. 29, 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