was misinterpreting
- past progressive of misinterpret.
Example Sentences
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Simpson was misinterpreting life expectancy statistics and their bearing on Social Security.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 5, 2022
Fallin wrote in July that the board was misinterpreting state law on crimes that require convicts serve 85 percent of their sentence.
From Washington Times ● Sep. 10, 2015
Several legal experts and medical ethicists agreed with Mr. Muñoz’s lawyers that the hospital was misinterpreting the Texas law by applying it to the dead.
From New York Times ● Jan. 15, 2014
Hospital officials maintain that they are following the law, although several experts in medical ethics said they believed the hospital was misinterpreting the law.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 9, 2014
So I was misinterpreting the author, when I said that all that we see in nature is there, and a great deal more.
From The Recreations of a Country Parson by Boyd, Andrew Kennedy Hutchison
