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misread

[mis-reed] / mɪsˈrid /


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Investors misread the mood music on U.S.-Canadian trade talks, in a big way.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 25, 2026

Washington also ignored or misread current Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei’s comment that while he would allow the memorandum of understanding, he opposed it “as a matter of principle.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 12, 2026

Human-like machines may appear familiar and trustworthy as their civilian use grows, increasing the risk people misread danger.

From BBC ● Jun. 8, 2026

The machines still stumble, pause, misread objects and often work best in controlled environments.

From MarketWatch ● May 27, 2026

The cook saw that I was looking at it instead of eating it, and she misread my expression.

From "Kindred" by Octavia Butler

Carolina Milanesi, an analyst at Creative Strategies, said that misreads how consumers actually adopt technology.

From Barron's ● Aug. 31, 2026

Interest rates: Warsh has argued that the Fed misreads inflation by relying on models that treat strong growth as inflationary and on data that lags behind by months.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 21, 2026

It did not help that a couple of misreads meant he did not get to one through ball and Alejandro Garnacho failed to react to one of his.

From BBC ● Dec. 9, 2023

There is a slew of misreads or errors that concern me by the public, news media, and others.

From Salon ● Apr. 10, 2023

Soojin quickly glances at me, but either misreads my face or ignores it.

From "Amina's Voice" by Hena Khan

Roblox stock declines as Wall Street believes investors could be misreading the videogame company’s business trajectory.

From Barron's ● Sep. 28, 2026

But where Hwan’s Christianity is a willful, grotesque misreading of the Bible, Latif actively wrestles with his moral shortcomings.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 25, 2026

If that were true, astronomers could have been misreading the supernova data and incorrectly concluding that cosmic expansion was speeding up when it was actually slowing.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 29, 2026

OpenAI’s challenges in trying to regain its crown are rooted in an earlier misreading by company leaders of where the AI market was headed.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 1, 2026

The apparent textual anomalies are artifacts, products of misreading.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton




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