misperceive
Americanverb (used with object)
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I feel aligned with him in terms of experiencing the pressures from the outside that misperceive his interior life and what he considers to be his own authentic self.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 14, 2023
Synthetic data, they wrote, ends up “polluting the training set of the next generation of models; being trained on polluted data, they then misperceive reality.”
From New York Times ● Jul. 18, 2023
Most investors misperceive the risks associated with investing in minority communities.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 20, 2021
Federal investigators recently said that Zobayan appeared to misperceive the angles at which he was flying after becoming disoriented in the fog.
From Fox News ● Jun. 23, 2020
Social and psychological context also causes us to misperceive size.
From Scientific American ● Jul. 21, 2012
These are names that have “picks and shovels” exposure to data-center expansion, or tech stocks that have been sold off because of misperceived AI risks.
From MarketWatch ● Dec. 29, 2025
An in-flight emergency is a critical point in time where the flight crew must trust their training, knowledge and instincts … without having to wonder how their actions might be misperceived, misconstrued and second guessed.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 3, 2023
Both Lindrooth and Sweeney described Philly fans as having a passion and authenticity that’s misperceived by outsiders as brash.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 2, 2022
And we found that, like members of the public, a large sample of local-level policy makers also misperceived that these solutions were less popular than they really are.
From Scientific American ● Aug. 23, 2022
She was disappointed to be misperceived, and more angered than ever — this time she could not box herself up — and these emotions opened others.
From "Typical American" by Gish Jen
For people who might want to organize around climate, misperceiving these kinds of things will give them pause because it feels like you’re up against something that’s insurmountable.
From Scientific American ● Aug. 23, 2022
Menzel explained that people were misperceiving distant objects in the skies, such as planes and balloons, or being fooled by optical illusions produced by clouds and celestial phenomena.
From Science Magazine ● Jan. 27, 2022
Even altering a street sign in ways imperceptible to the eye can trick a car into misperceiving a stop sign as a speed limit sign.
From New York Times ● Mar. 18, 2021
Failure to read another person’s intention correctly is central to fiction and was pioneered by Jane Austen, whose novels often involve misperceiving romantic intention.
From Scientific American ● Aug. 10, 2012
Far worse than misperceiving "them" was the fact that I had misperceived "us."
From Salon ● Aug. 26, 2010
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