take the wrong way
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No. I say things all the time that people take the wrong way, do I mean them, not always.
From Salon ● Dec. 13, 2021
This is one of the things Robbins fears the trolls on the interwebs might take the wrong way.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 13, 2018
The app could also block transmission of thoughts that aren’t really negative but that she might take the wrong way.
From Scientific American ● Feb. 11, 2013
If we could not find the right way up some new mountain we could at least take the wrong way up an old one.
From Above the Snow Line by Dent, Clinton Thomas
I always say the wrong word, do the wrong thing, take the wrong way.
From The Purchase Price by Hough, Emerson
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