Sentence examples for the misapprehension from inspiring English sources

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the misapprehension

noun

A failure to understand something; an illusion, misconception or misunderstanding.

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The misapprehension of historical reality that goes together with this reinvention can take a comical turn.

Some people seem under the misapprehension that the Edinburgh fringe and international festival are almost over.

People seemed to labour under the misapprehension that I had made 'trillions' for myself".

Talking of which, obviously I still laboured under the misapprehension that my wife could be rationalised into rediscovering hers.

Society still largely operates under the misapprehension that race (largely defined by skin colour) has some basis in biology.

Robinson appeared at one point to be making a case for resignation, only to correct the misapprehension when prompted.

It was during one of those Penelope's Pants Suit occasions that the misapprehension I'd been under was revealed to me.

If so, I hope they are not laboring under the misapprehension that there is a realistic possibility of keeping this secret.

A woman in Queens reported a brown thrasher at the bottom of an empty apple barrel under the misapprehension that it was a hummingbird.

Even the once great logician Bertrand Russell was baffled; he seems to have been under the misapprehension that Gödel had detected an inconsistency in mathematics.

The 35-hour-week rules were based on the misapprehension that there is a fixed amount of work to be shared out.

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