Sentence examples for common misinterpretation from inspiring English sources

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The phrase "common misinterpretation" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to a mistake or misunderstanding that is commonly held or made by a group of people. Example: One common misinterpretation of the novel is that the main character is based on the author's own life experiences. (This sentence implies that many people believe this, but it is not actually true.).

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However, I have been worried by one common misinterpretation of these figures.

In the latter half of the 19th century, a common misinterpretation of Charles Darwin's work was that humans were lineally descended from existing species of apes.

Scholars in other disciplines have been quicker to recognize the limits and common misinterpretation of p values in significance testing.

A common misinterpretation by ESS users is mistaking of business-as-usual scenarios as predictions of what will happen (instead of what can happen).

A common misinterpretation of the concept of entropy, that all systems progress towards more disorder, has been leveraged by those challenging evolutionary science and the teaching of evolution in schools by asserting that thermodynamics falsifies evolution (for example, Morris 2000, Ross 2004, Yahya 2005 (atlasofcreation.com)).

A third common misinterpretation of double effect is to assume that the principle assures agents that they may do this provided that their ultimate aim is a good one that is ordinarily worth pursuing, the proportionality condition is satisfied and the harm is not only regretted but minimized.

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One of the most common misinterpretations was of friend.com.kp, which was assumed to be a North Korean knockoff of Yahoo or Facebook.

Common misinterpretations are also addressed.

While having an impressive diagnostic accuracy in the hands of highly skilled operators, inexperienced practitioners must be aware of some common misinterpretations that may lead to wrong decisions at the bedside.

The comments of Charlie Ward and Allan Houston regarding Jews reflect all-too-common misinterpretations of the New Testament.

Review of a subset of underreported cases suggested three common root causes: misinterpretation of jurisdictional guidelines, misunderstanding of reportable specimen criteria, and use of outdated reporting guidelines by healthcare providers (failure to report pathogens recently added to the guidelines, as occurred with the underreported giardiasis cases).

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