as in to misunderstand
to fail to understand the true or actual meaning of
I misread her body language and thought she was becoming confrontational
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Recent Examples of misread
Abrego Garcia’s attorneys pushed back in a Tuesday response filing, arguing that the government is misreading what the deportation order actually allows.
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Kaelan Deese, The Washington Examiner, 6 Jan. 2026
Did Notre Dame misread the room?
—Pete Sampson, New York Times, 2 Jan. 2026
Such alignment can easily be misread as flattery.
—Adrian Kuenzler, The Conversation, 19 Dec. 2025
Decades later, these could be misread as badges of effortless cool, an archive of one’s subcultural bona fides.
—Hua Hsu, New Yorker, 13 Dec. 2025
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misunderstand
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Following a meeting on the soil testing protocol, Whelton noted that officials appeared to misunderstand the need to test for 16 additional hazardous metals.—
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People keep either misunderstanding or forgetting that there are not one but two revolutions going on here, the second being accelerated computing.—
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“Misread.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/misread. Accessed 20 Jan. 2026.
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