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- verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
misapprehend .
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Examples
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The woman suffragist misapprehends -- it will be better to assume that she "misapprehends" -- when she suggests that we, the male electors, have framed the laws.
The Unexpurgated Case Against Woman Suffrage Almroth Wright 1904
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The reader who believes that, to such a "Chinese" parent, the throng of Asian American "bloggers" and their "commenters" pouring grief onto the webpage are so much as audible over the boom of Wall Street Journal and Yale Law, severely misapprehends the nature of this parenting paradigm.
erin Khue Ninh: Amy Chua's Recipe for Disaster and the Externalized Cost of Book Sales erin Khue Ninh 2011
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John Herbison: This misapprehends the import of Miller, which replaced the Roth “utterly without redeeming social value” standard with the criterion that the work, taken as a whole, lacks serious literary, artistic, political or scientific merit.
The Volokh Conspiracy » The Future of “Serious Value” Safe Harbors 2010
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This approach ignores the wide regulatory latitude afforded to Congress, under its Commerce Clause power, to address what in its view are substantial problems, and it misapprehends the role of a reviewing court.
HUFFPOST HILL - Court Gives 2009 Republicans A Big Win Eliot Nelson 2011
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This misapprehends the import of Miller, which replaced the Roth “utterly without redeeming social value” standard with the criterion that the work, taken as a whole, lacks serious literary, artistic, political or scientific merit.
The Volokh Conspiracy » The Future of “Serious Value” Safe Harbors 2010
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The reader who believes that, to such a "Chinese" parent, the throng of Asian American "bloggers" and their "commenters" pouring grief onto the webpage are so much as audible over the boom of Wall Street Journal and Yale Law, severely misapprehends the nature of this parenting paradigm.
erin Khue Ninh: Amy Chua's Recipe for Disaster and the Externalized Cost of Book Sales erin Khue Ninh 2011
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John Herbison: This misapprehends the import of Miller, which replaced the Roth “utterly without redeeming social value” standard with the criterion that the work, taken as a whole, lacks serious literary, artistic, political or scientific merit.
The Volokh Conspiracy » The Future of “Serious Value” Safe Harbors 2010
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This misapprehends the import of Miller, which replaced the Roth “utterly without redeeming social value” standard with the criterion that the work, taken as a whole, lacks serious literary, artistic, political or scientific merit.
The Volokh Conspiracy » The Future of “Serious Value” Safe Harbors 2010
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Beyond the discordant tactics, much of the substance of their agenda similarly misapprehends the Obama style and vision.
John Affeldt: Education Attacks on Darling-Hammond Don't Fit Obama's Post-Partisanship 2009
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Here is where, and why, Krugman -- along with most Hillary supporters -- misapprehends what Obama is about:
In An Interview With TPM, Krugman Ramps Up Case Against Obama 2009
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