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How to use the word misconceptions in a Sentence?

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The true power of science lies in its ability to challenge assumptions, dismantle misconceptions, and pave the way for new frontiers of understanding.

Aloo Denish

added by Aloo-Denish
10 months ago

We held a big, mass event, we had all of our medical providers here. So if there were any questions to clear up, any misconceptions, any misinformation, we had all of our data and were able to provide them all the information.

Keith Evans

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

I can't wait to clear up misconceptions. I look forward to talking to them.

Ginni Thomas

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I think there are some misconceptions with... rifles. A lot of people say,' Oh, they're big bullets.' Actually, they're small bullets -- interestingly, they're even smaller than many handguns. So the actual bullet that's discharged from An AR-15, for example, is a half the size of the bullet from a 9 millimeter. The difference is the... velocity.

Acute Care Surgery.Matthew McConaughey

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The circumstances around my parents’ sudden passings have become fodder for press, and there are some misconceptions rolling around - understandably so, this is very delicate for me to write because i’m wanting to honor their privacy, which they held so tightly. there’s an awful irony in the fact that, because of the very lengths they went to in order to protect their privacy in life - that privacy has been stripped away in death.

Alicia Witt

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

It’s less stigmatizing than other terms like pedophile, a lot of people when they hear the term pedophile, they automatically assume that it means a sex offender. And that isn’t true. And it leads to a lot of misconceptions about attractions toward minors.

Allyn Walker

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

I understand there's confusion, anger and perhaps fear, while we can not rewind these past couple of weeks, we can provide some clarity on some misconceptions.

Michelle Moore

Found on CNN
2 years ago

There’s a lot of misconceptions about open water versus swimming pools. There are definitely hidden dangers in open water that people don’t think about, even in a pond. It’s murky, it’s not clear, it’s hard to see how deep it is.

Marie Snodgrass

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

That said, Id like to clear up some misconceptions.

Paulina Porizkova

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

I'd like to get my public image nearer to my reality. People have a lot of misconceptions.

Jacqueline Bisset

added by RobertHaigh
3 years ago

I think one of the misconceptions out there is that a company like ours is somehow going gangbusters at the expense of this virus and that couldn't be farther than the truth, prices have gone up. We're not passing any of those costs on to our customers. In fact, many of the items we handle, we're selling at a loss.

Jesse Greenberg

Found on CNN
4 years ago

We are very conscious that this is a reflection of a problem in broader society than and there is no suggestion that it is more severe for our members, footballers are more similar to average society than most people think, and that is simply because of the misconceptions about how players live.

Jonas Baer-Hoffmann

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

I think some people have misconceptions about trans people, that we're deceptive. But that couldn't be further from the truth, at the end of the day, we just want to commute to work and see our friends and family without the threat of violence. We're just like every other New Yorker.

Serena Daniari.Daniari

Found on CNN
4 years ago

There are a lot of misconceptions about the appropriateness of bariatric surgery in the pediatric world, at the end of the day, what this policy statement is saying is that bariatric surgery as a treatment strategy for severely obese pediatric patients is safe and effective and should be considered early in patients.

Marc Michalsky

Found on CNN
4 years ago

How I Met Your Mother. i am happy to dispel any rumors or misconceptions and am quite proud to say that I am a very content gay man.

Neil Patrick Harris

Found on CNN
7 years ago

It just always reveals to me how many misconceptions and what a misunderstanding there is about what feminism is, feminism is about giving women choice. Feminism is not a stick with which to beat other women with.

Emma Watson

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

Our society is filled with sexual myths and misconceptions, mostly stemming from a combination of our culture's puritanical roots, as well as rampant consumerism, which feeds off individual insecurities to sell unnecessary products.

Michael Aaron

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

We do want to take this opportunity to address misconceptions, the questions about what this means for them, that's legitimate.

Alia Salem

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

We felt like within the bullying space there were a lot of myths and misconceptions, and things that we know as researchers that somehow seemed to get lost in translation.

Susan Swearer

Found on CNN
8 years ago

I think the misconceptions, there are certain people that are fixed in those with those beliefs, and been in those for twenty-five years, you're not going to change them.... What you've got to do is basically talk to the future about what you want to with the country.

Bill Daley

Found on CNN
9 years ago

As long as people have misconceptions about how Ebola is spread, and continue to prevent volunteers from doing their work, we will not stop the disease.

Youssouf Traore

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

There’s a lot of misconceptions (such as) that there’s no space, which isn’t true, for every building in Bombay, you have that square footage of flat roof.

Adrienne Thadani

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

It was not their irritating assumption of equality that annoyed Nicholai so much as their cultural confusions. The Americans seemed to confuse standard of living with quality of life, equal opportunity with institutionalized mediocrity, bravery with courage, machismo with manhood, liberty with freedom, wordiness with articulation, fun with pleasure - in short, all of the misconceptions common to those who assume that justice implies equality for all, rather than equality for equals.

Trevanian from the novel "Shibumi"

added by anonymous
13 years ago

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