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- verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
misconceive .
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In short, the idea that Durban will result in real action being put off misconceives what we have just agreed to and the full-out effort required in the here and now.
Todd D. Stern: Durban: An Important Step Forward in Combating Global Climate Change Todd D. Stern 2011
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In short, the idea that Durban will result in real action being put off misconceives what we have just agreed to and the full-out effort required in the here and now.
Todd D. Stern: Durban: An Important Step Forward in Combating Global Climate Change Todd D. Stern 2011
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This misconceives the purpose of letting the states experiment.
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This argument misconceives the nature of the plaintiffs
The Volokh Conspiracy » A Rare Circuit Case Allowing a “Rational Basis” Challenge To Go Forward: 2009
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Once we put everything that exists into these two categories, we now have two types of ignoranceone that mistakenly perceives persons to inherently exist and another that misconceives other phenomena to inherently exist.
Becoming Enlightened Dalai Lama 2009
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Bryan Caplan completely misconceives the relationship between the law of marginal utility, time preference, the intertemporal allocation of resources and the interest rate.
The Myth of Time Preference, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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We think this proposal entirely misconceives the legal situation, the State Departments top lawyer wrote in a memo to Katzenbach.
The Attack on the Liberty James Scott 2009
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However, to this challenge it might be replied that it misconceives how (P3) is to be interpreted: (P3), it may be said, is not intended to apply to properties understood as universals, but only to so-called particularised properties (otherwise variously known as property instances, individual accidents, tropes, or modes).
Ontological Dependence Lowe, E. Jonathan 2009
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Once we put everything that exists into these two categories, we now have two types of ignoranceone that mistakenly perceives persons to inherently exist and another that misconceives other phenomena to inherently exist.
Becoming Enlightened Dalai Lama 2009
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This misconceives the incentives and pressures operating on the blue dogs, and the tools available to their managers.
"The political ground is already shifting under Big Labor's card-check initiative." Ann Althouse 2009
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