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And maybe that’s part of what makes their ghost kitchen in the new season feel so strangely poignant: for once, they’re trying — however misguidedly — to do something normal.

From Salon • Jul. 22, 2025

Although she said the King seemed to know about her "mischievous" side, when as a youngster she'd misguidedly tried to go upside one of the huge chimneys.

From BBC • Dec. 12, 2024

“If there is a mitigating factor to today’s decision,” he wrote, it is that the lawsuit “the court misguidedly allows to proceed is no barrier to the prompt execution of Reed’s lawful sentence.”

From New York Times • Apr. 19, 2023

The song plays as the couple’s Dunder Mifflin colleagues misguidedly — but sweetly — disrupt the couple’s wedding procession, and it gives cast members a chance to show off their amateur dance moves.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 23, 2023

“He’s like a brother to me,” she added, misguidedly.

From "A Thousand Splendid Suns" by Khaled Hosseini