Example Sentences

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Perhaps the main risk of buying an infrastructure fund or E.T.F. is misunderstanding what you’re getting, said Barbara Weber, founding partner of B Capital Partners, an infrastructure investment consultancy in Zurich.

From New York Times • Jul. 9, 2021

“When there is misunderstanding, prejudice and behavior that is not acceptable.”

From New York Times • Feb. 18, 2020

And although I know I shouldn’t care about Zillow’s Halloween rankings, I do—if only because the real estate listing company is misunderstanding and obscuring a valuable idea about how we build cities.

From Slate • Oct. 28, 2016

You say the next mistake older investors make is misunderstanding performance and financial information.

From Forbes • Sep. 19, 2014

Who supposes that twenty States would have sent commissioners here to consider this great question and suggest to Congress487— Mr. TRUMBULL:—The Senator from Pennsylvania, I see, is misunderstanding me.

From A Report of the Debates and Proceedings in the Secret Sessions of the Conference Convention For Proposing Amendments to the Constitution of the United States, Held at Washington, D.C., in February, A.D. 1861 by Chittenden, L. E. (Lucius Eugene)