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the misdirection
noun
An act of misleading, of convincing someone to concentrate in an incorrect direction.
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Why all the misdirection?
When you think of the misdirection of funds..
The commission said it had no evidence that the misdirection was intentional.
I really liked the misdirection in the clue for 3 Down ("Management course topic").
Here, the misdirection is in the word COWS; it may mean milk-producing bovine quadrupeds.
Martin was not the only player who benefited from the misdirection.
It's not only the misdirection of law enforcement that one worries about.
The maternal-mortality rate is particularly worrying, pointing to serious problems.One reason is the misdirection of public money.
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Clue of the day for me was the misdirection-that-really-isn't-misdirection of 45 Down's "Like some doughnuts and eyes".
In the piece, "The Polarization of Extremes," Sunstein argued that the trend promised ill effects for the direction—or, more precisely, the misdirection of public opinion.
Von Frisch demonstrated that the recruited bees were unaffected by the misdirection., However, he must have realized that the Restmissweisung would complicate matters for dance decoders.
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