misguide
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As expectations about what these products should detect increase, so too do the opportunities to let them misguide us and cause us to punish or profile innocent people.
From Slate ● Dec. 11, 2023
They also cloud and misguide, often creating false — but powerful and entrenched — impressions that can outweigh more objective measures.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 21, 2023
“The agents guide the people, or misguide them, into going illegally,” Anil Pratham, director of the anti-human trafficking unit of the Gujarat police, said in a telephone interview.
From New York Times ● Mar. 14, 2022
The words lingered as he drove me home in silence, forming the genesis of a mantra that would frequently misguide me as I transformed myself into an Everything But Girl.
From Salon ● Feb. 10, 2013
Your value there has never been unduly estimated by those whom personal feelings did not misguide.
From Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 4 by Thomas Jefferson Randolph
She added: "Such a proposal would not merely be mistaken, misguided or unacceptable; it would deserve to be rejected outright."
From BBC ● Aug. 12, 2026
As it has done in the past, the White House on Tuesday derided Bonta’s lawsuits as misguided.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 4, 2026
Curtailing the boom and the data centers behind it—as New York recently did—is misguided.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 2, 2026
If you ask AI how to invest $5,000, for instance, you’ll get a wide-ranging and possibly misguided response.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 24, 2026
A voice inside her head tried to soothe her with well-intended but misguided consolation.
From "A Thousand Splendid Suns" by Khaled Hosseini
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“I mean, we don’t do modeling like that. This is misguiding people.”
From New York Times ● Sep. 14, 2021
Hamilton said: "It is unacceptable, cowardly and misguiding for those in power to suggest such a law."
From BBC ● Jul. 29, 2021
PSG players celebrated with enthusiasm in front of their fans but the exuberance was somewhat misplaced and also misguiding.
From Washington Times ● Oct. 19, 2016
We all feel as if we have been entirely by-passed and badly misled and in so being have been misguiding those who have sought and heeded our advice.
From BBC ● Jun. 29, 2011
The misguided ideas of a misguided leader who in turn was misguiding his army and his people.
From "The Light in Hidden Places" by Sharon Cameron
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