have misunderstood
- present perfect of misunderstand.
Example Sentences
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Berkshire recently became more attractive in part because the market seems to have misunderstood its earnings report over the weekend, according to money manager and Buffettologist Christopher Bloomstran.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 6, 2026
In 1987, Fed Chair Alan Greenspan told a U.S. senator at a hearing: “If I seem unduly clear to you, you must have misunderstood what I said.”
From MarketWatch ● Feb. 3, 2026
Another possibility is that scientists have misunderstood the driving forces of climate change.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 27, 2024
"With measurement errors negated, what remains is the real and exciting possibility we have misunderstood the universe," said Adam Riess, a physicist at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore.
From Science Daily ● Mar. 11, 2024
If so, then he must have misunderstood half and not understood the rest of what I told him by my fireside in the Palace, the night after the Ceremony of the Keystone.
From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin
