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Noun
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While virtually everyone recognizes the environmental and social benefits of thrifting, certain barriers and misconceptions prevail, hindering the industry’s global adoption.—
Grace Butler,
USA TODAY,
14 Feb. 2025 -
This is a common misconception, but no, most people will not want to wear more than one pair of socks while hiking.—
Maggie Slepian,
Travel + Leisure,
11 Feb. 2025
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There have been past misunderstandings about who is responsible for what at the site, and how revenue should be handled.—
Contributed Content,
Twin Cities,
7 Feb. 2025
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But if there’s mistrust, the process can quickly break down, resulting in misunderstandings and conflicts about the patient’s best interests and making a difficult situation more distressing.—
Daniel T. Kim,
The Conversation,
4 Feb. 2025
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Nowadays, especially for weddings, hosts will even send out visual examples or moodboards to mitigate any misinterpretations.—
Hannah Jackson,
Vogue,
5 Feb. 2025
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These two species have distinct and often contrasting body language cues, which can lead to misinterpretation.—
Anders Fogh Rasmussen,
Newsweek,
5 Feb. 2025
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Ohanian used his misconstruction of employment figures as the basis for a wide-ranging critique of California economic policy, mostly citing how the high cost of living drives people out of the state.—
Michael Hiltzik,
Los Angeles Times,
3 Dec. 2024
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This is a gross misconstruction of federal law.—
Noah Feldman Bloomberg Opinion (TNS),
Star Tribune,
10 Sep. 2020
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Given this pushback, President Trump’s pardons, particularly for those convicted of attacking police, could be a political miscalculation.—
Patrik Jonsson,
The Christian Science Monitor,
24 Jan. 2025
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Recognizing Maduro as Venezuela’s legitimate leader is not only a moral blunder, but also a serious economic miscalculation by the leaders of Mexico, Brazil and Colombia.—
Andres Oppenheimer,
Miami Herald,
11 Jan. 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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