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How to use the word misreading in a Sentence?

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But I was concentrating on taking care of the kids, and I thought it would just probably go [away]. You know if you try to answer everything that comes out then you’re constantly [responding], you’re wasting your time… Of course, it affects her, of course, it affects me. Misreading events is always detrimental… We’re an easy target, easily hit, because we’re in the public eye a lot.

Pascal Le

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

But the idea that Stoics don’t have emotional skin in the game is a misreading of ancient Stoicism. The Stoics were the most nuanced of early emotion theorists, detailing the layered complexity of emotional life. They describe “proto-emotions” that we feel and can’t control, and even a sage isn’t impugned for experiencing these starts and startles.

Nancy Sherman

added by AnaDay
2 years ago

Article I, Section 8, of the Constitution, of course, lays out the delegated, enumerated, and therefore limited powers of Congress. Only through a deliberate misreading of the general welfare and commerce clauses of the Constitution has the federal government been allowed to overreach its authority and extend its tendrils into every corner of civil society.

Edward H. Crane

added by Normando
3 years ago

Given such issues as North Korea, everyone probably understands the importance of this agreement. But this decision was made while linking it to Japan's review of export controls, i cannot help saying they are completely misreading the security environment.

Taro Kono

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

I can tell you, if( House Democrats) believe The President is going to yield on this particular issue, they're misreading House Democrats, misreading the American people.

Mark Meadows

Found on CNN
5 years ago

I can tell you, if they believe this President is going to yield on this particular issue, they're misreading him, misreading the American people.

Mark Meadows

Found on CNN
5 years ago

I know they have 150 PhD economists over there who are probably smarter than I am, but they're misreading the situation, this, to me is, the worst possible thing they can do.

Donald Selkin

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

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