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Noun
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Counsel should try to foresee and prevent any misconstruction.—
Joshua Stein,
Forbes,
15 Mar. 2025 -
Counsel should try to foresee and prevent any misconstruction.—
Joshua Stein,
Forbes,
15 Mar. 2025
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Press junkets came with loaded questions about his background, early websites were devoted to hating Jar Jar, and there were misinterpretations about the character's intentions.—
Jordan Hoffman,
EW.com,
13 July 2025
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Simple terms also leave less room for mistakes and misinterpretation.—
Adrian Dearnell,
Forbes.com,
10 July 2025
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Another reader sent an annotated version of my column to me, showing a fundamental misunderstanding of my column and pretty much everything else.—
Matt Fleming,
Oc Register,
13 July 2025
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Beyond risks to trust and reputation, misunderstanding of the capabilities and limitations of AI systems can lead to serious operational risks.—
Bernard Marr,
Forbes.com,
11 July 2025
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The complexity of these challenges is exacerbated by common misconceptions about security and compliance.—
Peter Kellis,
Forbes.com,
11 July 2025
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Yet society still frames obesity as a failure of willpower—a harmful misconception that fuels stigma and misleads approaches to care and policy.—
Francesco Rubino,
Time,
9 July 2025
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One of the biggest miscalculations Putin has made is to play Trump.—
CBS News,
CBS News,
13 July 2025
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These aren’t just innocent typos but often result in compliance breaches, miscalculations, and flawed reporting.—
Aleksandra Bal,
Forbes.com,
13 July 2025
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Revealing unverified or incomplete information could hurt investigations, prejudice prosecutions, violate privacy or create misimpressions, according to the agency.—
Bart Jansen,
USA TODAY,
5 June 2023
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For roughly four hours, the hearing played out as a fusillade of statistics, impressions and misimpressions, as Republicans argued that New York was a hellscape of unchecked violence and chaos — viral videos of which were shown on local news programs around the country to to prove it.—
Ginia Bellafante,
New York Times,
18 Apr. 2023
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