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
However, this view misunderstands the great influence these factors have on domestic consumption.
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Brendan Ahern, Forbes, 8 Jan. 2025
Others misunderstand your moods as the moon and Mercury clash.
—USA TODAY, 5 Jan. 2025
However, things took a turn when the stepmom misunderstood the situation.
—Paul Du Quenoy, Newsweek, 31 Dec. 2024
The response confounded experts who spoke with ProPublica, who said such an approach misunderstands the long-term nature of his condition.
—Annie Waldman, CNN, 14 Dec. 2024
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Brendan Ahern, Forbes, 8 Jan. 2025
Others misunderstand your moods as the moon and Mercury clash.
—USA TODAY, 5 Jan. 2025
However, things took a turn when the stepmom misunderstood the situation.
—Paul Du Quenoy, Newsweek, 31 Dec. 2024
The response confounded experts who spoke with ProPublica, who said such an approach misunderstands the long-term nature of his condition.
—Annie Waldman, CNN, 14 Dec. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for misunderstand
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Butler would return and play three games, but his second suspension came after missing a team flight for a road trip last Wednesday, resulting in another two games being docked.—
Scott Thompson,
Fox News,
27 Jan. 2025
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If there is a second set of eyes and ears during a visit with the healthcare provider, things are less likely to be missed.—
Julie Scott, MSN, ANP-BC, AOCNP,
Verywell Health,
27 Jan. 2025
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Among Underwood’s defenders is talk show host and actress Whoopi Goldberg, whom no one would mistake for a Trump fan.—
Leonard Greene,
New York Daily News,
19 Jan. 2025
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No one could mistake it for the work of anyone else, itself a paradigm-breaking anomaly in a format otherwise defined by collective enterprise.—
Alison Herman,
Variety,
16 Jan. 2025
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Many reviewers misread the family-life contrast of gang rival Louis (Mathieu Perotto) and his dying father, missing the poignant irony of isolates at odds with each other.—
Armond White,
National Review,
15 Jan. 2025
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But that assessment misread the Netanyahu-Trump dynamic.—
Franklin Foer,
The Atlantic,
15 Jan. 2025
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Imagine a situation where a key detail gets lost in a handwritten note or a witness statement is misinterpreted.—
Beth Worthy,
Forbes,
21 Jan. 2025
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Grok, xAI's flagship model, has also repeatedly misinterpreted news stories and made up falsehoods in the past.—
Jibin Joseph,
PCMAG,
7 Jan. 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 2 Feb. 2025.
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