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

A federal jury in California found Friday that tech tycoon Elon Musk misled Twitter shareholders, driving down the company's share price as he was poised to buy it in a $44 billion deal.

From Barron's • Mar. 21, 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

So when Savery built a model he would have been misled into thinking he had made a breakthrough.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton