misunderstand
Example Sentences
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To treat it as a separate category is to misunderstand the American story itself.
“I have communicated with manufacturers to the extent that any ambiguities or misunderstandings may have existed. I think they’ve been dissipated,” MacKinnon says.
Yet, when he finally got up the bravery, when he spoke to her directly, there was no misunderstanding.
From Literature
“From what we see working with clients, Social Security leveling can be helpful, but it’s easy to misunderstand,” said Joon Um, a certified financial planner at Secure Tax & Accounting, Inc.
From MarketWatch
Many of Lam’s forays into modernism, into the 1940s—dependent, almost to the point of parody, on Picasso—are schematic misunderstandings of Cubism’s spatial complexities.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
