mishearing
- present participle of mishear.
Example Sentences
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Masli, mishearing his worry, assumed he didn’t have a place to go and found someone in the audience who was happy to invite him to her house for a family gathering.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 21, 2025
A detailed run-down of Siri in 2011 from Ars Technica highlights problems familiar today, with the assistant dinged for mishearing instructions in loud spaces and mangling complex commands.
From The Verge ● Oct. 4, 2021
Last spring, Alexa was creeping people out by randomly laughing; it turned out the device was too easily mishearing the command “Alexa laugh.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2018
She can’t seem to get my mishearing of the lyric out of her head, though.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 19, 2017
She repeats the name several times after the desk clerk keeps mishearing her.
From "The Night Circus" by Erin Morgenstern
