Example Sentences

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“Don’t give them negative feedback because they will misinterpret that as positive feedback.”

From The Verge • Mar. 13, 2022

Do you worry people will misinterpret your intentions?

From New York Times • May 24, 2021

“If you don’t do that, the media will misinterpret it, and our issues won’t get out,” he said.

From The Guardian • Jun. 17, 2019

We live in an anxious and therefore lecturesome age, surrounded by daily reminders how easily and perhaps willfully others will misinterpret our words if we don’t make them dully obvious.

From Slate • Mar. 22, 2019

And if there is a reasonable chance that readers will misinterpret a statistical tendency as an absolute law, a responsible writer will anticipate the oversight and qualify the generalization accordingly.

From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker