misled

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“All I ever wanted was for you to get silly with me baby,” she sings about a relationship gone wrong, multi-tracking her vocals on the chorus to convey just how badly her feelings misled her.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 31, 2026

The ease with which genes pass on mechanical, protein-coded traits like eye color has misled even scientists into thinking that they pass on other traits straightforwardly as well.

From Slate • Mar. 19, 2026

He later said that he did not believe that he misled anyone.

From BBC • Mar. 14, 2026

This allegedly misled tax authorities and allowed the company to avoid the VAT payments.

From Barron's • Mar. 12, 2026

Even a visitor to the Fertile Crescent in 9500 B.C. rather than in 8500 B.C. could have been misled into supposing the Fertile Crescent permanently unsuitable for food production.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond