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misinterpret

verb as in misconstrue

verb as in misunderstand

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Early symptoms include a rash, fatigue, muscle and joint pain, headache and fever, but can often be overlooked or misinterpreted.

These officials said further rate cuts could add to the risk of higher inflation becoming sticky and would be misinterpreted as implying a lack of the Fed’s commitment to its 2% inflation target.

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He also said that figure had been widely misinterpreted as 9,000 grooming gang cases and had led to "unbalanced reporting".

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When asked why, they often cite the widely misinterpreted Women’s Health Initiative study, unaware of studies demonstrating health benefits.

While reflecting the time in which it was written, the Kalven Report has been misinterpreted — its important contingency about threats to a university’s existence has been largely discarded and gone unheeded.

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