misalign

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Recent Examples of misalign But in the meantime, the situation is in flux, the industry is misaligned, and consumers are confused. Allen Farmelo, Robb Report, 17 Feb. 2025 Current incentives, in short, are seriously misaligned for the advent of depopulation. Nicholas Eberstadt, Foreign Affairs, 10 Oct. 2024 On the contrary, these works form a trail of historical and imagined personalities, full of desires and disinclinations that misalign. Rachel Vorona Cote, The Atlantic, 19 Feb. 2025 The style of the shoes was frequently misaligned with the gender of the celebrity—Judy Garland, for example, was represented by a male cowboy boot with a feather and foil crest, while Truman Capote was awarded a woman’s shoe decorated with flowering vines. Richard Meyer, Artforum, 1 Feb. 2025 See All Example Sentences for misalign
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Verb
  • The film’s most trenchant scenes involve Gere in states of repose or regret or nostalgia, especially when psychically disarrayed in a chair with a camera facing toward him, wondering what, for example, desire smells like.
    Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 6 Dec. 2024
  • Seen in a video that moves through the abandoned and disarrayed hallways of the pediatric intensive care unit at Al-Nasr Children’s Hospital in northern Gaza were several babies whose unattended bodies lay on separate hospital beds.
    Yasmine Salam, NBC News, 2 Dec. 2023
Verb
  • Written in black and white, the attacks look deranged.
    Oliver Darcy, CNN, 31 May 2023
  • The busy, fevered covers—everyone looks deranged—practically shout for a browser’s attention, in contrast to the subtler ones gracing later Clowes books like Wilson (2010) and Patience (2016).
    Ed Park, The New York Review of Books, 14 Mar. 2023
Verb
  • Ultimately, Ambrose wants viewers to come away from the film with a better understanding of kids with DSD, knowing that there’s nothing disordered or wrong about them.
    Elizabeth Yuko, Rolling Stone, 8 Mar. 2025
  • Next, the researchers looked at the relationship between the frequency of use of these apps and disordered eating, body image, and compulsive exercise.
    New Atlas, New Atlas, 24 Feb. 2025

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“Misalign.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/misalign. Accessed 3 Apr. 2025.

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