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misunderstand

[mis-uhn-der-stand] / ˌmɪs ʌn dərˈstænd /


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Hopefully Hollywood won’t misunderstand the lesson in those projects’ success.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 19, 2026

We also discovered—without too much surprise—that he often seems to fundamentally misunderstand the works he treasures most deeply.

From Slate Jun. 11, 2026

Kaufman acknowledged mistakes can occur, but suggested many complaints arise when parents complete age checks on behalf of their children or misunderstand the process.

From BBC Apr. 13, 2026

And if AI agents are not kept on course by a human, they could misunderstand an instruction and wander down an errant processing path, resulting in a business paying for wasted computing power.

From Barron's Mar. 30, 2026

For whatever reason, some guys developed an intense, focused interest in me and my life that I used to misunderstand as romantic interest.

From "A Very Large Expanse of Sea" by Tahereh Mafi

Amazon responded by saying the FTC "fundamentally misunderstands how advertisers operate".

From BBC Aug. 31, 2026

For Barton, the red card illustrates something he believes the public still misunderstands: VAR does not eliminate the need for the referee to interpret the rules.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 10, 2026

Some of its language suggests that, despite several briefings, he completely misunderstands the subject of uranium enrichment—crucial to any negotiation with Iran.

From Slate Jul. 23, 2026

José Castañeda, a spokesman for Google, which owns YouTube, said they plan to appeal: “This case misunderstands YouTube, which is a responsibly built streaming platform, not a social media site.”

From The Wall Street Journal Mar. 25, 2026

The evidence is clear: not only does della Porta echo Garzoni’s words, but he misunderstands some of the experiments he claims to have performed, and so misreports them.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton

Holmes and Evans embrace what they call “radical transparency,” opening their home to the cameras in hopes of convincing the filmmakers — and eventually the world — that the public has fundamentally misunderstood her.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 7, 2026

After WSJ reported on the email, a DOJ spokeswoman said the official misunderstood a directive to push back a scheduled meeting.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 4, 2026

The batter looked almost suspiciously vegetable-heavy going into the oven, the sort of mixture that makes you wonder whether you have misunderstood either baking or gardening.

From Salon Aug. 31, 2026

Sir Chris told Irish broadcaster RTÉ that he worried that "some people have misunderstood the purpose of the bill", adding that it was all about getting answers for families.

From BBC Aug. 25, 2026

All I could think of at first was that somehow he had misunderstood something I had said.

From "Z for Zachariah" by Robert C. O’Brien

According to the researchers, the controversy sparked by the findings reported last November was caused by a misunderstanding in the analysis rather than evidence that scientists' basic picture of the universe had suddenly broken down.

From Science Daily Aug. 29, 2026

Readers in America may marvel at the authors’ misunderstanding of the Kellogg family’s breakfast-cereal story.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 21, 2026

“From that point of view, it becomes a more serious story, and it goes beyond misunderstanding to something more worrying.”

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 31, 2026

Unlike the incident involving OpenAI's technology, Anthropic's models had access to the internet "due to a misunderstanding between us and our evaluation partner," called Irregular, Anthropic said in a blog post.

From Barron's Jul. 31, 2026

In my dream their deaths had been a mistake, a misunderstanding, a new play they had been rehearsing.

From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss




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