misdirect
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He said Mr Justice Bright did misdirect the jury about the waiver, but only on it being potentially "decisive" if it were a civil trial instead of a criminal one.
From BBC ● Jul. 24, 2026
It is kind of like the ultimate misdirect, you know what I mean?
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 18, 2025
We can’t afford to let the banks misdirect us again.
From Slate ● Mar. 22, 2024
“Baylor’s focus of media attention on football tried to misdirect attention from institutional failures of the Baylor administration. Our clients would have none of that,” Dunn said.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 18, 2023
If that was so, then I was partly to blame, for I had distracted the cannoneer and caused him to misdirect the shot.
From "The Shakespeare Stealer" by Gary L. Blackwood
She misdirects him to an empty stall, then slips out behind him and pulls the door shut, using her whole body to prevent him from opening it.
From Salon ● Mar. 22, 2025
He dazzles and misdirects, prods and pokes, changes topics midsentence and frequently offers claims that are on their face so bizarre that they demand repetition by the media, if only to be discounted.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 24, 2019
My brother and I worked really hard in the writing to answer all the questions for ourselves, but then to create all these misdirects for the audience.
From The Verge ● Oct. 18, 2019
A master magician with words, Deaver misdirects with one tale while what's really going on is just off the reader's radar.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 3, 2013
It seems to me, on the contrary, to be a harmful one, inasmuch as it misdirects the mind of a people, already little open to pure artistic emotion, as to the special function of Art.
From The Life, Letters and Work of Frederic Leighton Volume II by Barrington, Mrs. Russell
Today’s critique of land power isn’t entirely wrong, but it is misdirected.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 3, 2026
"This was... a race against the clock, as it was critical that we locate the downed aviator as quickly as possible, while at the same time keeping our enemies misdirected," Ratcliffe told the news conference.
From Barron's ● Apr. 6, 2026
By the time couples notice, the pressure is already there, and it often gets misdirected at each other.
From MarketWatch ● Feb. 20, 2026
Rather than reflecting a loss of control due to runaway habits, some compulsive behaviors may result from excessive, though misdirected, deliberate control.
From Science Daily ● Feb. 16, 2026
He must have allied with Balekin, misdirected Dain’s spies.
From "The Cruel Prince" by Holly Black
Last Wednesday, TikTok creators, finding none of the mayhem they expected to see in Springfield, started suggesting that faith-based groups working with Haitian immigrants were misdirecting resources.
From Salon ● Feb. 14, 2026
Furious, Strowger blamed the operators for misdirecting calls meant for him to his competitors, and set about inventing a bias-free, electromechanical machine to replace them.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 26, 2024
However, euphemisms often have the unintended consequences of misdirecting the conversation and maintaining the status quo.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 9, 2022
The discovery that Ms. Holmes, the tech industry’s most celebrated female entrepreneur, was misdirecting the world about her company marked a turning point in the tech press, ending a decade-long run of largely positive coverage.
From New York Times ● Nov. 18, 2021
But Kronos was always fooling us, misdirecting our attention.
From "The Last Olympian" by Rick Riordan
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