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misguide

[mis-gahyd] / mɪsˈgaɪd /






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As expectations about what these products should detect increase, so too do the opportunities to let them misguide us and cause us to punish or profile innocent people.

From Slate ● Dec. 11, 2023

They also cloud and misguide, often creating false — but powerful and entrenched — impressions that can outweigh more objective measures.

From Washington Post ● Apr. 21, 2023

“The agents guide the people, or misguide them, into going illegally,” Anil Pratham, director of the anti-human trafficking unit of the Gujarat police, said in a telephone interview.

From New York Times ● Mar. 14, 2022

The words lingered as he drove me home in silence, forming the genesis of a mantra that would frequently misguide me as I transformed myself into an Everything But Girl.

From Salon ● Feb. 10, 2013

Thus blind of light, mine eyes misguide my feet, And baleful darkness makes me still afraid; Men mock me when I stumble in the street, And wonder how my young sight so decayed.

From Elizabethan Sonnet Cycles: Idea, Fidesa and Chloris by Martha Foote Crow

The Rams’ — and Stafford’s — season began poorly after the team’s misguided decision to arrive in Australia the day before they played the San Francisco 49ers in the season opener.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 11, 2026

The war in Iraq was a tragically misguided venture that tested the Western alliance more than 20 years ago.

From Salon ● Sep. 17, 2026

Recent calls from artificial-intelligence leaders to slow the technology’s development have rippled through the stock market — and Wall Street’s early reactions may be misguided.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 15, 2026

In such an environment, making firm-level ROI the primary measure of success is misguided; worse, it risks obscuring why firms must invest in AI at all.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 31, 2026

And no matter how I try to think about it, I can’t figure out what about this book is bad or misguided.

From "The Wrong Way Home" by Kate O’Shaughnessy

"We continue to do that and covering it up or misguiding the Environment Agency in any way is absolutely no part of that performance."

From BBC ● Dec. 4, 2023

“I mean, we don’t do modeling like that. This is misguiding people.”

From New York Times ● Sep. 14, 2021

Hamilton said: "It is unacceptable, cowardly and misguiding for those in power to suggest such a law."

From BBC ● Jul. 29, 2021

PSG players celebrated with enthusiasm in front of their fans but the exuberance was somewhat misplaced and also misguiding.

From Washington Times ● Oct. 19, 2016

The misguided ideas of a misguided leader who in turn was misguiding his army and his people.

From "The Light in Hidden Places" by Sharon Cameron


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