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EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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But he insisted that some of his official acts have been deliberately misconstrued and deeply misunderstood.
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I wouldn't want it to be misconstrued.
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It couldn t possibly be misconstrued as a cry for help.
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Perversely, the sight set me to wondering if I had written anything that could be misconstrued.
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The inherited mythology is garbled, and its guiding value lost or misconstrued.
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They knew, from day one, the possibility of causing offence and that their case would be misconstrued in the media.
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When your overtures are misconstrued, the prudent course is sometimes to apologise and withdraw.
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You had a preconceived notion that our neighborhood had problems with diversity and therefore misconstrued comments to fit an agenda.