misread
Example Sentences
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At the heart of this story are women – two died while others went on to have surgery as their smear tests had been misread for more than a decade.
From BBC • May 14, 2026
“He misread the policy and he got me very excited,” she said.
From MarketWatch • May 13, 2026
With the stock well off its record levels, I misread that.
From Barron's • May 4, 2026
Mr. Armitage reminds us that “Gilgamesh” is less a singular artifact than a long, fragmented transmission—spoken, inscribed, shattered, buried, misread, resurrected.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 24, 2026
The cook saw that I was looking at it instead of eating it, and she misread my expression.
From "Kindred" by Octavia Butler
Vocabulary lists containing misread
Florida's B.E.S.T. Common Prefixes: mis-
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