as in to miss
to fail to understand the true or actual meaning of
you misunderstood that poem because you took everything so literally
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Recent Examples of misunderstand
Gualtieri, a Republican, said people misunderstand red flag laws and think that law enforcement takes people’s firearms.
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Romy Ellenbogen, Miami Herald, 7 Mar. 2025
Make your wisdom easy to digest and impossible to misunderstand.
—Jodie Cook, Forbes, 14 Mar. 2025
If social media is any indication, some locals (and Karri) misunderstood the signup form and accidentally opted-in to getting alerts via text, phone and email...
—Karri Peifer, Axios, 19 Feb. 2025
People can misunderstand the rules, such as those involving eligibility of dependents, filing status and earnings.
—Susan Tompor, USA TODAY, 3 Feb. 2025
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Romy Ellenbogen, Miami Herald, 7 Mar. 2025
Make your wisdom easy to digest and impossible to misunderstand.
—Jodie Cook, Forbes, 14 Mar. 2025
If social media is any indication, some locals (and Karri) misunderstood the signup form and accidentally opted-in to getting alerts via text, phone and email...
—Karri Peifer, Axios, 19 Feb. 2025
People can misunderstand the rules, such as those involving eligibility of dependents, filing status and earnings.
—Susan Tompor, USA TODAY, 3 Feb. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for misunderstand
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The Kane County coroner’s office announced Thursday night that the skeletal remains found inside a car removed this week from the Fox River belong to Karen Schepers, the 23-year-old Elgin woman missing since April 1983.—
Courier-News,
Chicago Tribune,
28 Mar. 2025
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Curry has missed the last few games for the Warriors but could be making his return tomorrow.—
Paul Du Quenoy,
MSNBC Newsweek,
28 Mar. 2025
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Police are concerned that people may mistake game play as an actual threat, leading to unnecessary 911 calls and police responses.—
Mike Danahey,
Chicago Tribune,
21 Mar. 2025
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An autoimmune disease is when the body mistakes its own healthy cells, tissues, or organs for foreign substances and attacks them.—
Danielle Weiss,
Verywell Health,
19 Mar. 2025
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In a Los Angeles hotel room, Duffy is showing Reacher the surveillance video of Prado that turned out to be inadmissible because poor, dead Agent Eliot misread a map and shot the video from a place he wasn’t supposed to be.—
Chris Klimek,
Vulture,
20 Mar. 2025
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Read: How Netanyahu misread his relationship with Trump Netanyahu was prime minister for 13 of the 14 years before October 7.—
Gershom Gorenberg,
The Atlantic,
14 Mar. 2025
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The Mail reported there had been suggestions that Errol Musk may have misinterpreted his son's joke and incorrectly believed Grimes had wanted to ink her son for real.—
Daniel R. Depetris,
Newsweek,
25 Mar. 2025
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Allison’s legal team has suggested that the government may have misinterpreted the communications between Allison and the Slovakian killer.—
James Bandler,
ProPublica,
25 Mar. 2025
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But would her students, turned on everywhere by the dogma of political correctness, misapprehend Haynes’s aim?—
Doreen St. Félix,
The New Yorker,
22 June 2023
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Some people misapprehend it and think of as imitation.—
New York Times,
New York Times,
17 Nov. 2021
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“Misunderstand.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/misunderstand. Accessed 4 Apr. 2025.
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