misguided
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Recent calls from artificial-intelligence leaders to slow the technology’s development have rippled through the stock market — and Wall Street’s early reactions may be misguided.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 15, 2026
In the weeks leading up to the first Super Bowl at SoFi, there were misguided rumblings that the game might be moved to Dallas, because the NFL had secured that city as a backup.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 6, 2026
In both of these misguided invasions, Americans convinced themselves that Canadians did not exist, at least not as a people or a nation with a shared collective identity.
From Salon ● Aug. 31, 2026
In such an environment, making firm-level ROI the primary measure of success is misguided; worse, it risks obscuring why firms must invest in AI at all.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 31, 2026
Alice turned and walked back to the cluster of stalls, her gait dainty and contrived, as though a misguided person had taught her how to walk “like a lady.”
From "Half of a Yellow Sun" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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Florida's B.E.S.T. Common Prefixes: mis-
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