How to Use misperception in a Sentence

misperception

noun

• There’s this misperception that the South is the most racist place.
  — NBC News, 31 Jan. 2022
• City leaders have said that there is a misperception of the role of police in schools.
  — Washington Post, 2 Apr. 2022
• Yet the misperception persists that older adults are frail and weak.
  — Paul Nash, The Conversation, 15 June 2020
• Did any of the gaps in misperception of climate-policy support stand out to you?
  — Robin Lloyd, Scientific American, 23 Aug. 2022
• There’s a misperception about banking, and people have a narrow view of it.
  — Fortune, 3 Mar. 2023
• But there is this misperception, which is the second half of the question, that Qatar is picking actors in the region to stand for something.
  — Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 12 Dec. 2022
• In this case, the misperception would result in worse performance.
  — Ncbi Rofl, Discover Magazine, 10 Apr. 2012
• The public perception, or misperception, of the process.
  — Billboard Staff, Billboard, 11 Dec. 2020
• And can misperceptions about resilience hurt people, rather than help?
  — Rachel Goldsmith Turow, Discover Magazine, 8 Jan. 2024
• There’s a misperception, however, that tennis isn’t a good movie sport because there haven’t been that many great tennis movies.
  — Joe Reid, Vulture, 26 Aug. 2022
• There is a common misperception that paying for something entitles one to be rude about it.
  — Jacobina Martin, Washington Post, 15 June 2022
• That is the only way to clear up misperceptions, to signal, to communicate, and to work together where and when our interests align.
  — CBS News, 17 June 2023
• People who care about these issues shouldn’t look at those protests and immediately condemn them out of a misperception of what protest means.
  — Lisa Deaderick, San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 June 2022
• Richards chuckled when talking about the misperception that all blacksmiths make horseshoes.
  — Beth Mlady, cleveland, 21 July 2023
• Betty is handled throughout the story, and there’s so much misperception about what’s really going on with her.
  — Jackie Strause, The Hollywood Reporter, 1 June 2023
• Golda Meir got teary during the Jerusalem premiere!), as well as the common misperception that, because of his surname, Jewison must be Jewish.
  — Gary Goldstein, Los Angeles Times, 4 May 2022
• And what still persists today is the misperception that Black people are somehow different from other groups of people.
  — CBS News, 12 July 2020
• Imperfect Foods and Misfits Market, for example, are shining a light on the misperception that food needs to look perfect to be edible.
  — Ryan Begin, Forbes, 27 Mar. 2023
• Any such misperception would be harmful to this institution and our country.
  — Phillip M. Bailey, USA TODAY, 1 July 2023
• Unfortunately, the report furthered the misperception that Bow’s career was derailed by the advent of sound.
  — Cynthia Littleton, Variety, 10 Feb. 2024
• If two people experience a trauma and one person bounces back while the other struggles, there is sometimes the misperception that one person is more resilient.
  — Alia E. Dastagir, USA TODAY, 10 June 2021
• Contradicting a common misperception, about a third of sufferers are male and the diseases can affect young children and seniors.
  — Sandhya Raman, Anchorage Daily News, 21 Mar. 2022
• This misperception may be the result of prejudice but also of the simple fact that, on average, teenagers of color spend less time being seen by the right mental-health professional.
  — Matt Richtel Bee Trofort, New York Times, 13 Dec. 2022
• The publicity surrounding the threats against Mr. Rushdie has led to a popular misperception of the Arabic word, which in English usage has become equated with a death sentence.
  — Ben Zimmer, WSJ, 18 Aug. 2022
• Poor land management practices and the misperception of milkweed as an undesirable plant species has led to the plant disappearing throughout much of its native range.
  — Scott Dyke, Discover Magazine, 18 Sep. 2020
• But, as Ross makes clear, the idea that Neutra’s practice catered largely to affluent clients is a misperception of his œuvre, given that many of his houses were built for middle-class professionals.
  — The New Yorker, 18 Oct. 2021
• Kids tend to have a misperception, an overestimation, to be specific, of how much other college students drink, as well as how much alcohol matters to them.
  — Elissa Strauss, CNN, 6 Apr. 2021
• There’s also a misperception that allowing the investment community to participate in these projects will pad the wallets of the super-rich.
  — Zach Buchwald, Fortune, 17 Dec. 2021
• The Wild to Mild approach also addresses another common misperception: that the flu isn’t a serious illness.
  — Meghan Bartels, Scientific American, 9 Oct. 2023
• The misperception trend held when participants were asked to estimate the percentage of Americans who were at least somewhat concerned about climate change.
  — Robin Lloyd, Scientific American, 23 Aug. 2022

Last Updated: 27 Jun 2024