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

Companies say there are reasonable explanations, such as the device mishearing its “wake word”—which it recognizes to start listening to commands.

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

And are violations of the rule obvious products of mishearing, careless reading, or a chintzy attempt to sound highfalutin?

From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker