every now and then one speaker or reader misperceives some word, and a mutation results
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It has been misrepresented by those who claim to be its advocates; and it has been misperceived by those who claim to be its opponents.
They also tend to misperceive and underestimate the lethality of their suicidal behaviors.
To perceive these cargoes as ‘ballast’ is to misperceive the nature of the coastal trade.
The fear makes them actually misperceive innocent social situations, viewing every glance or conversation with an outsider as absolute proof of abandonment.
In this amnesiac state we began to misperceive these symbols and writings.
I suggest that many Americans misperceive the process of gaining citizenship, and think it's actually a lot easier than it proves to be.
Many parents misperceive what kids can do at particular developmental stages.
At the same time, many of the words we use are like distorting lenses: They make us misperceive and hence misjudge the object we look at.
It would tell the world that it has perhaps misperceived that the minority community is not welcome.
In play after play, one or more characters is brought to a realization that he or she has misperceived the nature of reality and the realization is almost always associated with pain, suffering, and death.
Why not instead consider it one's moral duty to sound the alarm about the tiny risks which are misperceived to be large?
Unfortunately, the theory fails to consider the possibility of all players misperceiving a situation in the same direction.
However, sexual activity may not fulfill their partners' sexual desires if the men misperceive what these desires are.
It's misperceived as a ‘safe drug’ without the side effects of other rave drugs such as LSD, methamphetamines, heroin or PCP.
They trick their participants (and I use that word very intentionally, as half of the ‘effect’ lies in the viewer) into misperceiving natural events.
I don't consider morons hurling ‘gay’ as an epithet the same as normal people misperceiving someone as being gay when they are not.
And if she has a mood disorder, is depressed or has some type of personality disorder where she's inclined to misperceive events, we should know that.
The second premise is surely plausible: it would be quite unmotivated to assume that humans see the true colors of objects and that all other species misperceive them.
In another example, two users misperceived each other's interest.
Commonly, pilgrims misperceive this vision and incorrectly assume that the vision is a piece of land devoid of rocks and stones upon which something may be built.