Example Sentences

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Instead he has been on the back foot, reactive rather than proactive, and has misread the extent of betrayal by the church.

From The Guardian • Aug. 15, 2018

In doing so the court has misread the clear intent of state law and signaled its contempt for the public’s legitimate interest in obtaining information about the workings of state agencies.

From Washington Post • Sep. 23, 2015

This judgment has misread the mood of India’s young population.

From New York Times • Dec. 11, 2013

Diversification is always smart and these will do alright if the market has misread the tealeaves and rates stabilize or fall a bit from here.

From Time • Jul. 1, 2013

In all, Langdon has misread the text or mistransliterated it in over forty places, and of the 204 preserved lines he has mistranslated about one-half.

From An Old Babylonian Version of the Gilgamesh Epic by Jastrow, Morris