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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Verb
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And when Rose missed from 15 feet, McIlroy finally sealed it.—
Time,
Time,
14 Apr. 2025 -
The Dodgers then gift-wrapped an insurance run to the Cubs in the eighth, giving up another score after Conforto missed a fly ball near the left-field line for a leadoff double.—
Jack Harris,
Los Angeles Times,
14 Apr. 2025
Verb
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Her mother had misread something about the Property Brothers on the internet and was insisting that they were being persecuted for being Christian.—
Patricia Lockwood,
New Yorker,
18 May 2025
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Clearly the Red Sox misread things here, but with Devers the situation is a little more complicated.—
Mac Cerullo,
Boston Herald,
10 May 2025
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Even so, that study has been misinterpreted to build this legal challenge to fluoride.—
Megha Satyanarayana,
Scientific American,
4 Apr. 2025
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The dynamic between these three incredible actresses is electric and layered, less about what’s said and more about what’s withheld, what’s misinterpreted, what’s long overdue.—
Travis Bean,
Forbes.com,
29 Mar. 2025
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“Misunderstood.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/misunderstood. Accessed 24 May. 2025.
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