as in missed
to fail to understand the true or actual meaning of
you misunderstood that poem because you took everything so literally
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The Lions have dealt with a number of injuries throughout the 2024 season, including a season-ending injury to Pro Bowl pass rusher Aidan Hutchinson and a serious one suffered by running back David Montgomery, who missed the last three weeks of the season after suffering an MCL injury.—
DJ Siddiqi,
Forbes,
8 Jan. 2025 -
Mimi Sound Personalization fine-tunes audio to reveal details that might otherwise be missed.—
Mark Sparrow,
Forbes,
8 Jan. 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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In business and life, communication on all levels is a key component to success, but there are so many ways in which communication can go wrong or be misinterpreted.—
Janine Schindler,
Forbes,
30 Dec. 2024
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On Monday, Purnell defended his vision as innovative and grossly misinterpreted.—
Lorraine Mirabella,
Baltimore Sun,
23 Dec. 2024
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“Misunderstood.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/misunderstood. Accessed 15 Apr. 2025.
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