misperceive
Americanverb (used with object)
Other Word Forms
- misperception noun
Etymology
Origin of misperceive
Example Sentences
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I feel aligned with him in terms of experiencing the pressures from the outside that misperceive his interior life and what he considers to be his own authentic self.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 14, 2023
Synthetic data, they wrote, ends up “polluting the training set of the next generation of models; being trained on polluted data, they then misperceive reality.”
From New York Times • Jul. 18, 2023
Most investors misperceive the risks associated with investing in minority communities.
From Seattle Times • Sep. 20, 2021
Federal investigators recently said that Zobayan appeared to misperceive the angles at which he was flying after becoming disoriented in the fog.
From Fox News • Jun. 23, 2020
Social and psychological context also causes us to misperceive size.
From Scientific American • Jul. 21, 2012
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