How to Use misalign in a Sentence

misalign

verb
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  • Things will go off and on the rails on the way there, naturally; the leads will align and misalign.
    — Robert Lloyd, Los Angeles Times, 5 Nov. 2020
  • On the ensuing free kick, Brazil’s wall was misaligned.
    — Steven Goff, Washington Post, 13 June 2024
  • Among the issues on which they were misaligned was trade relations.
    — Leslie Vinjamuri, Foreign Affairs, 15 Feb. 2022
  • The actor sported an overbite and is front teeth is misaligned so that one of them is directly in the middle of his mouth .
    — Lea Veloso, StyleCaster, 11 Aug. 2024
  • But this leap year, the heavens have misaligned and robbed St. Patrick’s Day revelers of the first chance in six years to paint the town green on a Saturday because of the leap year.
    — Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 20 Feb. 2024
  • Each morning as the helicopter warms up and recharges, the blackout from the previous night will misalign the mission clock.
    — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 6 June 2022
  • The zipper on Kate's jacket also appears to be misaligned.
    — Kelsie Gibson, Peoplemag, 12 Mar. 2024
  • These games, many new and with small followings, seemed out of keeping with the standards of the Olympics and misaligned with what was globally popular in the realm of esports.
    — Tim Stevens, Robb Report, 30 July 2024
  • When coils are misaligned, energy is often lost as heat, which is also not good for battery health.
    — Simon Hill, WIRED, 5 Jan. 2024
  • That rule is misaligned with today’s fast-moving markets, the SEC decided.
    — Lila MacLellan, Fortune, 17 Oct. 2023
  • My love for sushi tragically misaligns with my current…budgetary constraints…as a 20-something in New York City on a media salary.
    — Li Goldstein, Bon Appétit, 23 Mar. 2024
  • Journalist, Roland Martin for instance, took to his YouTube channel to highlight how the partnership may be misaligned.
    — Jasmine Browley, Essence, 24 June 2024
  • But adapting well takes serious money, and the mechanisms for funding it are misaligned.
    — The Editors, Scientific American, 1 Dec. 2019
  • Dual-chamber pacemakers are used when the timing of the chamber contractions is misaligned.
    — Jennifer Whitlock, Rn, Msn, Fn, Verywell Health, 24 Oct. 2023
  • Next, identify which elements are misaligned with your values or goals.
    — Inga Bielińska, Forbes, 14 Feb. 2024
  • Many other holidays have equally been misaligned with their original intent and turned into something they were not meant to be.
    — Faith Barton, San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 Nov. 2023
  • The building fell southward, in part, because the framework of beams and columns was misaligned and the structural connections were insufficient between the two sides. 3-D model shows beams inside the ground floor.
    — Safak Timur Safak Timur, New York Times, 11 May 2023
  • With trains, the problems are obvious — heat causes rails to expand and misalign, and electric power lines to droop, meaning trains have to slow, or sometimes stop altogether.
    — Peter Green, Quartz, 1 June 2024
  • Families shared stories of high-achieving children failing to win a seat in any of the district’s selective high schools, or being placed in a school too far away or one misaligned with student interests.
    — Sara Randazzo, WSJ, 11 Mar. 2023
  • Van Soest says that while some details of Blanchard’s stories were misaligned, several parts of Blanchard’s most mind-boggling experiences rang true across the board from the film’s interviewees.
    — Time, 13 July 2023
  • The fact is, Europe’s energy consumption is misaligned with the resources to which European countries have secure access.
    — Helen Thompson, Foreign Affairs, 27 Sep. 2022
  • Simply put, web3 is the opportunity to re-align incentivizes that have been grossly misaligned by web2 profit seekers.
    — Brian D. Evans, Rolling Stone, 24 Mar. 2023
  • In the past, environmentalism has been misaligned as a cause for the wealthy, when in fact, Black leaders, and specifically Black women have long had a hand in shaping the conservationist movement.
    — Rayna Reid Rayford, Essence, 22 Apr. 2024
  • Its unlimited ends misalign to limited means, and initiative rests dangerously in the hands of Tehran, which has a greater interest in its own survival than the United States does in forcing its demise.
    — Brett McGurk, Foreign Affairs, 22 Jan. 2020
  • The Christian institution argued the move was too last-minute and misaligned with international standards.
    — Ananya Bhattacharya, Quartz, 27 Mar. 2023
  • This usually misaligns incentives away from our true effectiveness and enjoyment on the job.
    — Rodger Dean Duncan, Forbes, 4 Sep. 2024
  • Tesla is recalling nearly 3,000 vehicles due to an issue with suspension that could misalign the wheel, causing instability and increasing risk of a crash.
    — Michelle Shen, USA TODAY, 2 Nov. 2021
  • If the vision becomes unclear or misaligned with the actions being taken, a company can quickly lose its way and communicate the wrong message both internally and externally.
    — Colin C. Campbell, Forbes, 3 May 2023
  • Its low- and mid-level centers were misaligned, which initially prevented strengthening.
    — Matthew Cappucci and Ian Livingston, Anchorage Daily News, 22 Aug. 2023
  • Newsom’s moratorium might not play well with voters in some swing states in a potential presidential campaign, adding to perceptions that leftist California and the Democratic governor are soft on crime and misaligned with the rest of the nation.
    — Taryn Luna, Los Angeles Times, 19 May 2024

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