Example Sentences

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The short answer: Your accountant has their wires crossed — or you may have misunderstood what they said.

From MarketWatch • May 18, 2026

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

"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

Early conservators appeared to have "misunderstood" the figure, Mr Chu added, and within decades "that area seems to have deteriorated into small islands of paint and become less clear".

From BBC • Oct. 31, 2023

He may have misunderstood the biological basis of human heredity—but at least he understood what to do about it.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee