as in to misunderstand
to make an incorrect judgment regarding
the gymnast misjudged her landing and sprained her ankle
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Recent Examples of misjudge
Moments later, Atlas appears to misjudge the angle needed to properly load one of the engine covers.
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Mack Degeurin, Popular Science, 31 Oct. 2024
Analysts believe Quibi misjudged customer needs by focusing on short-form content in a market already saturated with options.
—David Henkin, Forbes, 10 Sep. 2024
But this year, amid another tight presidential race, even a small polling miss could vastly misjudge the outcome.
—Kaleigh Rogers, New York Times, 17 Oct. 2024
Oh continue to love me-never misjudge the most faithful heart of your beloved.
—Elizabeth Logan, Glamour, 16 Oct. 2024
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Mack Degeurin, Popular Science, 31 Oct. 2024
Analysts believe Quibi misjudged customer needs by focusing on short-form content in a market already saturated with options.
—David Henkin, Forbes, 10 Sep. 2024
But this year, amid another tight presidential race, even a small polling miss could vastly misjudge the outcome.
—Kaleigh Rogers, New York Times, 17 Oct. 2024
Oh continue to love me-never misjudge the most faithful heart of your beloved.
—Elizabeth Logan, Glamour, 16 Oct. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for misjudge
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Miss why someone has a gun, misunderstand how to help Standing before a class of a dozen new gun owners in summer 2023, firearms instructor Jieire Vance ticked through slides.John Diedrich, USA TODAY, 14 Dec. 2024
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The Brazilian seemed to misunderstand Johnson’s position.Brian Mazique, Forbes, 9 Dec. 2024
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Two years before this, Purdue warned the U.S. not to underestimate China's determination to win the space war.Daniel R. Depetris, Newsweek, 6 Dec. 2024
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Even those alarming figures underestimate the true danger.Sharon Lerner and Al Shaw, CNN, 5 Dec. 2024
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Turkish officials likely foresaw the regime’s collapse but miscalculated how feeble Russian and Iranian backing had become.Guney Yildiz, Forbes, 11 Dec. 2024
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For the first half-century of the Super Bowl era, teams were simply miscalculating the risk versus reward of going for it.Lev Akabas, Sportico.com, 28 Nov. 2024
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Without signaling this, people who have not experienced this style of leadership before might mistake you as such and proceed to tell your agents that this is an issue and a derailer on your path to promotion.Stephen Miles, Forbes, 9 Dec. 2024
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Dylan, clearly thinking about food, mistakes the question, thinking he’s being asked about bratwurst.Mitchell Peters, Billboard, 8 Dec. 2024
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“Misjudge.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/misjudge. Accessed 22 Dec. 2024.
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