misread

Example Sentences

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“I totally misread how I would feel,” he said.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 15, 2026

He initially tried to explain the incorrect date by claiming someone had misread his handwriting.

From BBC • Feb. 17, 2026

Such alignment can easily be misread as flattery.

From Salon • Jan. 3, 2026

He concedes, quite ruefully, that in his coverage of war-torn Syria he utterly misread the malevolence of Bashar al-Assad.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 24, 2025

He felt that he was still groping in the dark; he had chosen his path but kept looking back, wondering whether he had misread the signs, whether he should not have taken the other way.

From "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" by J.K. Rowling