How to Use misperception in a Sentence

misperception

noun
  • There’s this misperception that the South is the most racist place.
    — NBC News, 31 Jan. 2022
  • City leaders have said that there is a misperception of the role of police in schools.
    — Washington Post, 2 Apr. 2022
  • Yule said a common misperception is that the county pays for the food.
    — Julie Gallant, San Diego Union-Tribune, 1 Apr. 2025
  • Yet the misperception persists that older adults are frail and weak.
    — Paul Nash, The Conversation, 15 June 2020
  • Did any of the gaps in misperception of climate-policy support stand out to you?
    — Robin Lloyd, Scientific American, 23 Aug. 2022
  • There’s a misperception about banking, and people have a narrow view of it.
    — Fortune, 3 Mar. 2023
  • But there is this misperception, which is the second half of the question, that Qatar is picking actors in the region to stand for something.
    — Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 12 Dec. 2022
  • The misperception continues that risks from nature loss are for the future.
    — Nina Seega, Forbes, 21 Oct. 2024
  • In this case, the misperception would result in worse performance.
    — Ncbi Rofl, Discover Magazine, 10 Apr. 2012
  • First: What’s the biggest misperception other people have of you?
    — Alex Koller, CNBC, 15 Aug. 2024
  • Even among locals, there’s a misperception for how dangerous the area is, Freedman said.
    — Alex Sherman, CNBC, 13 Aug. 2024
  • The public perception, or misperception, of the process.
    — Billboard Staff, Billboard, 11 Dec. 2020
  • And can misperceptions about resilience hurt people, rather than help?
    — Rachel Goldsmith Turow, Discover Magazine, 8 Jan. 2024
  • There’s a misperception, however, that tennis isn’t a good movie sport because there haven’t been that many great tennis movies.
    — Joe Reid, Vulture, 26 Aug. 2022
  • There is a common misperception that paying for something entitles one to be rude about it.
    — Jacobina Martin, Washington Post, 15 June 2022
  • This is a step in the right direction to reducing the risks of misperception and miscalculation.
    — Timothy H.j. Nerozzi Fox News, Fox News, 25 Sep. 2024
  • That is the only way to clear up misperceptions, to signal, to communicate, and to work together where and when our interests align.
    — CBS News, 17 June 2023
  • People who care about these issues shouldn’t look at those protests and immediately condemn them out of a misperception of what protest means.
    — Lisa Deaderick, San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 June 2022
  • Richards chuckled when talking about the misperception that all blacksmiths make horseshoes.
    — Beth Mlady, cleveland, 21 July 2023
  • After 20 years in the Hollywood Hills, Green realized that there was a misperception hanging over him.
    — Chris Maggio, New York Times, 25 Jan. 2025
  • After 20 years in the Hollywood Hills, Green realized that there was a misperception hanging over him.
    — Chris Maggio, New York Times, 25 Jan. 2025
  • Overall, women’s misperceptions of their own risk may hold them back from getting a doctor to check out possible symptoms of a heart attack or stroke.
    — Amy Huebschmann, Discover Magazine, 24 Oct. 2024
  • Betty is handled throughout the story, and there’s so much misperception about what’s really going on with her.
    — Jackie Strause, The Hollywood Reporter, 1 June 2023
  • Golda Meir got teary during the Jerusalem premiere!), as well as the common misperception that, because of his surname, Jewison must be Jewish.
    — Gary Goldstein, Los Angeles Times, 4 May 2022
  • And what still persists today is the misperception that Black people are somehow different from other groups of people.
    — CBS News, 12 July 2020
  • There’s a common misperception that a 529 plan is an investment, but the plans usually have several options from which to select.
    — Brian Boswell, Forbes, 12 Mar. 2025
  • This flies in the face of the misperception that McKinney and Martindale couldn’t coexist after the safety vented some frustration in Week 9.
    — Pat Leonard, New York Daily News, 28 Feb. 2024
  • Imperfect Foods and Misfits Market, for example, are shining a light on the misperception that food needs to look perfect to be edible.
    — Ryan Begin, Forbes, 27 Mar. 2023
  • For all their strides, women still work to overcome misperceptions about their physical abilities – and lack of access to high-level coaching jobs.
    — Ira Porter, The Christian Science Monitor, 31 July 2024
  • That requires face-to-face meetings so that misperceptions can be ironed out quickly, competitive steps by the United States can be explained directly, and both sides can find off-ramps.
    — Rush Doshi, Foreign Affairs, 30 May 2024

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