was misunderstanding
- past progressive of misunderstand.
Example Sentences
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“There was misunderstanding in the verbal communication between both sides,” they said on Monday.
From Reuters ● Nov. 3, 2019
That suggestion, however, was firmly pushed back by Ambassador Gordon Sondland, who said Mr Taylor was misunderstanding the president's intentions.
From BBC ● Oct. 4, 2019
Walking home with my older sister afterward, I asked her—in Russian, I didn’t speak English at this point—whether I was misunderstanding the word nice.
From Slate ● May 23, 2018
The much bigger mistake Wishnofsky made was misunderstanding how our bodies react to weight loss.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 28, 2015
All the same there was misunderstanding, there was misunderstanding, there was a description and in any case what is a discovery, a discovery is the exact space covered by the moving example.
From Matisse Picasso and Gertrude Stein With Two Shorter Stories by Stein, Gertrude
