Etymology
Origin of misremember
Example Sentences
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What we tend to do is to misremember the length, based on the bar's size, recalling longer bars as shorter and shorter bars as longer.
From Science Daily • Apr. 24, 2024
Self-reported data can sometimes be unreliable because people may misremember, potentially exaggerating or downplaying their experience.
From Scientific American • Oct. 25, 2023
People sometimes use poor reasoning, misremember, or even lie.
From Textbooks • Jun. 15, 2022
When it comes to chronic pain, that means the more pain a person lives with, the more likely they are to misremember it as being worse than it was.
From Washington Post • Apr. 30, 2022
Facts are made in the image not of people, who misremember, misquote and misrepresent, but of books, immutable but mobile.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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