as in to misinterpret
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But Lee, who wrote a 1989 academic paper on embolism, said Evans had misinterpreted his conclusions.—
Brian Melley,
Chicago Tribune,
4 Feb. 2025 -
Some of the memo was misinterpreted by agencies and people who would be affected in Washington, aides said.—
Jennifer Jacobs,
CBS News,
31 Jan. 2025
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In Baton Rouge, researchers sampled menu items at 24 restaurants and found near 30% – more than one in four – were misrepresented.—
Christopher Cann,
USA TODAY,
28 Jan. 2025
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Trump's comments misrepresent the Biden-era rules, which were not a mandate for automakers to manufacture electric vehicles and did not require Americans to buy any specific type of car.—
Kelly Livingston,
ABC News,
20 Jan. 2025
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Correction: Due to a reporting error, an earlier version of this story misstated the name of the hospital where Lindsay Clancy is being treated.—
John R. Ellement,
BostonGlobe.com,
1 May 2023
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An earlier version of this article misstated Emily Busch’s position.—
Chuck Todd,
NBC News,
18 Apr. 2023
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Thereafter, the appearance of a triangle will become increasingly distorted until finally on April 9, Mars, Pollux and Castor will again appear in a straight line.—
Joe Rao,
Space.com,
17 Feb. 2025
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In that way, uncertainty is like a tax, distorting decisions and making the economy as a whole less efficient.—
Ben Casselman,
New York Times,
15 Feb. 2025
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These leaders don’t merely lie or misspeak or make light of life and death.—
Megan Garber,
The Atlantic,
23 Oct. 2024
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Walz was criticized following the Oct. 1 debate for flubbing an answer about allegedly misspeaking about being in Hong Kong during the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre.—
Joey Nolfi,
EW.com,
21 Oct. 2024
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In May 2024, Trump was convicted on 34 counts of falsifying business records.—
Jenna Sundel,
Newsweek,
4 Feb. 2025
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Trump’s lawyers filed a notice of appeal Wednesday, asking the state’s mid-level appeals court to overturn his conviction last May on 34 counts of falsifying business records.—
Michael R. Sisak,
Chicago Tribune,
29 Jan. 2025
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Those calls were sparked by the president’s poor debate performance against Trump on June 27, where Biden often garbled his words and lost his train of thought.—
Dan Mangan,
CNBC,
12 July 2024
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The idea may be, to garble Anna Karenina in a botlike way, that all plagiarisms are alike — but that obfuscates the idiosyncrasies of art and, indeed, of technology.—
Jackson McHenry,
Vulture,
30 Sep. 2024
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Traveling across Pakistan to cook and break bread with people from all over Pakistan was the ultimate coming home experience.—
Sonya Rehman,
Forbes,
11 Feb. 2025
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Not to mention, just buying fresh, whole, totally unprocessed foods would require you to cook every meal, which can be impractical.—
Erica Sloan,
SELF,
11 Feb. 2025
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