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"misdirect" Definitions
  1. [usually passive] to use something in a way that is not appropriate to a particular situation
  2. misdirect somebody/something (to something) to send somebody/something in the wrong direction or to the wrong place
  3. misdirect somebody/something (law) (of a judge) to give a jury (= the group of people who decide if somebody is guilty of a crime) wrong information about the law

107 Sentences With "misdirect"

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Fans on Reddit have already assumed it's an obvious misdirect.
The reason I love this is because of the misdirect.
Yet, this wasn't a single episode "misdirect," to use Snyder Urman's word.
Here's a perfect example of how Friday clues can really misdirect solvers.
Always love finding fun ways to misdirect solvers on super common crosswordese.
There is one reason the promo clue might be a total misdirect, though.
A hijacked chatbot could easily misdirect victims to nefarious links rather than legitimate ones.
The entire Jack-Rebecca blind date suggestion was a classic This Is Us misdirect.
You're constantly navigating and walking a tightrope, and you don't want to misdirect your frustrations.
All lies misdirect attention, but these lies did so by hijacking urban myths and stereotypes.
The Trump administration has only emphasized its policy, attempting to misdirect blame toward the Democrats.
Head trauma, too, can lead the brain to misdirect the kidneys, resulting in salt-wasting.
I had "oddball" for OFFBEAT, my only misdirect, and really loved the clue for EMERGENT.
How many people try each day to deflect, misdirect and outright lie to escape blame?
The loss of the reality-TV magician's ability to attract and then misdirect will be disastrous.
Yet even then, they misdirect their resentment toward Camille and Becca, the outcasts who refused to submit.
Pope marketed the project as "an insurance adventure with minimal color" and that's a pretty major misdirect.
But then with Carl's idol nullifier in play, the Davids didn't actually need to misdirect or confuse.
Her gun is definitely a misdirect and feels somewhat out of place, but it is what it is.
Rowling loves to misdirect, to hide her villains in plain sight and distract you with innocent red herrings.
ORE is often found in bands, so you'll see punny clues like "Some metal bands?" to misdirect you.
Mr. Forbes included some lovely obfuscation in a few cases, playing with cryptic "lingo" to misdirect the solver.
"The infant doesn't get intubated right away because parents try to elude the system and misdirect us," she said.
House Republicans continued to do their best to obfuscate and misdirect, as they have done throughout the impeachment process.
That was, of course, a misdirect, as Degeneres later brought Winfrey out to join her and Haddish on stage.
It's possible that the photos, as well as Cohan's tears at NYCC, could all just be a devious misdirect.
It's about setting the stage and priming the audience's expectations — even if that is in and of itself a misdirect.
Wright's drawn-out technical writings might actually be a red herring designed to misdirect the public, according to some skeptics.
But openly defying the queen — a classic, if risky, misdirect — while he secretly plots to poison her from the shadows?
As in Devs, what seems like it's going to be the central mystery of Ex Machina is actually a misdirect.
That's a nice misdirect that was set up literally six seasons ago, but hey, prophecies are always meant to be interpreted.
"It was challenging to work with the Dutch; they are so direct, and I like to hint and misdirect," Brett said.
If you go back and look at the scene where Dany attacks King's Landing, you'll note that it is a misdirect.
According to Thai superstition, you should call a newborn "ugly baby" in order to misdirect thieving ghosts enamored of comely young things.
The NBA owner also said the media needs to better learn to sift through how Trump tries to "deflect and misdirect" attention.
All I know is, I'm thrilled that Riverdale's first answer to the Black Hood mystery was the misdirect we all hoped it would be.
As in the short stories of Grace Paley, the plotlessness is, finally, a higher form of rigor, at once a philosophy and a misdirect.
"All news stations must be censored or fined when they continuously lie, obfuscate and misdirect intentionally," added a complaint filed in December from Nebraska.
Many wondered if that was a sort of prelude to the Negan murder, one intended to either foreshadow Glenn's departure or perhaps misdirect viewers.
The magician's left hand swirls a colorful scarf to misdirect attention to the framework's boast that it "retains" the tax incentive for charitable deductions.
In January, the Washington Post accused Trump of using his feud with the media to misdirect the public about his alleged relationship with Russia.
The misdirect lies not in any of the clues Poirot is examining, but in the reader's learned, unconscious knowledge of how murder mysteries work.
"Apple's statements following the issuance of the preliminary injunction have been deliberate attempts to obfuscate and misdirect," Qualcomm's Rosenberg said in a statement on Monday.
That's all to say that magic is the way forward now, because the game of thrones that gives the series its title was always a misdirect.
I say "member" loosely because The Armed is a band that goes to insane and often inane lengths to misdirect, deceive, and toy with their audience.
This was a deliberate misdirect to a physical yardstick ("School yardstick, for short"), but it was really meant to be a gauge of one's academic progress.
But as much as I appreciate the diabolical nature of the "Early '60s" misdirect in the KENNEDY, I mean, LINCOLN ERA clue, that one wasn't mine.
The original script was written by the Coen brothers back in the 1980s, and that DNA shines through with every tongue-in-cheek setup and comedic misdirect.
In other cases, officials said, the United States may complement operations to bomb warehouses full of cash by using cyberattacks to interrupt electronic transfers and misdirect payments.
Rather, it's a term of art that Mr. Trump and his defenders have abused to misdirect the public about the true nature of the special counsel investigation.
The fear of a mercurial boss, the constant pressure to misdirect — it played out on live TV across his face, a grimace that gave the game away.
Maybe cluing an entry like that as "One of many in orientation?" might be more fun, because it can also misdirect a solver to a school orientation.
But then came a jaw-dropping misdirect: What initially looked like a hard-won happily-ever-after ended with a now-homeless Issa moving in with Daniel.
Not only does this reflex waste time, but we misdirect precious mental energy that could be better spent recharging or focusing on other important areas of our lives.
So far there is no evidence of Trump's direct involvement in anything illegal, but his denials and attempts to misdirect add to the air of suspicion around him.
Of course, there is always the option that the challenge itself is just another ruse; a misdirect from a creative team that's known for its sleight of hand.
Its first season was one big misdirect that many people figured out more or less immediately, as the show hid the ball from us in increasingly obvious fashion.
Republicans could continue to placate their wealthy donors with fiscally conservative policies because they could misdirect blame onto Washington Democrats and their big-government agenda for any stagnating wages.
"Lacking hormones, say" might misdirect a solver to think about human hormones, but this clue was hinting at the kind of hormones that are added to poultry, for example.
So I don't subscribe to the theory, made popular by Politico's Jack Shafer, that all of Trump's tweets are written to misdirect us, though some of them clearly are.
Or maybe he seeks to misdirect from accusations by Palestinian journalists of torture and imprisonment by PA officials serving a government that hasn't held elections in nearly ten years.
What's different today is that Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, and a wide spectrum of sources has the ability to amplify and misdirect the flow of information, for better and for worse.
"You may wonder if he will use his skills to dance, slide and misdirect, or be as honest and direct as the West Point honor code he knows by heart."
Of course, I could have gone right to the central revealer, BOXING DAY, which is cleverly clued to misdirect solvers into thinking that "Present time in England ...?" means modern-day.
Social justice warriors have successfully exploited Kaepernick's declarations in order to misdirect the public's attention away from urban bloodletting toward the far fewer cases of heinous acts by racist cops.
I suppose it's possible they didn't make time to chat, but the scene could also, of course, be a complete misdirect since Marvel is really big into doing that these days.
Twitter's new policy comes amid growing concern that manipulated photos and videos — dubbed deepfakes when that manipulation is done using artificial intelligence — could be used to distort and misdirect political processes.
Adora and Amma learned to weaponize their femininity While Adora and Amma misdirect their anger over the confines of their gender roles at other women, Camille turns her violent rage onto herself.
Of course, Uber likes to control how its new features are rolled out, and could be seeking to misdirect as a way to compensate for letting this one slip through the cracks.
They happily picked L.A. apart, probing at soft spots with checkdowns to running backs and springing wide-open crossers by using hard play-action to suck up and misdirect second-level defenders.
The network and executive producer Ryan Murphy went to great lengths to withhold details about the new season, even going so far as to release two dozen promos meant to misdirect the audience.
The site leaked a trove of purported CIA hacking tools this week and zeroed in on what it called the agency's effort to "misdirect attribution" of cyber attacks to other nations, including Russia.
It lacked catharsis; as an out-of-left-field observation, it could be interpreted as the most deeply personal moment of the performance, or as an absurdist misdirect meant to tease viewers' expectations.
Instead, Trump's latest talking point, the imagined connection between the Central American drug trafficking and the opioid epidemic, is a misdirect from the fact that most U.S. overdoses cannot be prevented by a wall.
But reckless and mean-spirited attacks -- which are part of their ongoing vendetta against sugarcane farmers -- misdirect the focus away from any meaningful discussion of the facts that will lead us to real solutions.
Instead of confronting China head-on to reduce its excess production, the administration wants to misdirect our policy firepower and take out this frustration instead on our allies when we most need their help.
On the other hand, it seems like a giant missed opportunity and a shallow misdirect to barrel right into this storyline after Rick's departure, by essentially tricking the audience about the nature of the new threat.
The Russo Brothers successfully pulled off a massive misdirect by making us focus on the Avengers who had been dusted by Thanos' (Josh Brolin) snap and then giving us the most epic string of character returns.
The emphasis on public statements could offer clues at how prosecutors view the relevance of efforts to misdirect in formulating the first public statement about the 2016 Trump Tower meeting aboard Air Force One the next year.
Secret police and social manipulation have been used, as former FBI Director J Edgar Hoover put it, to "expose, disrupt, misdirect, discredit, or otherwise neutralize" political dissent for most of the 20th century, from Syria to South Africa.
Apart from being face-saving exercises, accounts of Boko Haram's imminent destruction may also be an attempt by the Buhari regime to misdirect attention from the myriad issues which have -- and continue to -- hamper its counter-insurgency strategy.
Maybe the firing of FBI director James Comey—which has seemed central to any obstruction investigation—will ultimately end up just part of a larger, longer, more coordinated attempt to mislead and misdirect attention around the Russia investigation.
We are seeing this in VR horror experiences like VRWERX's Paranormal Activity, where the user can navigate the experience at their own pace, and sound and music jump up at certain moments to scare, add suspense or misdirect.
If instead we think about deception simply as an act intended to misdirect, or induce a false belief, stripped of any judgment of right or wrong, we start to see socially positive acts of "deception" all around us.
Yes, the Steelers are still popular now, even though they're not in their late '70s glory, but the whole thing felt so clearly like a misdirect that I started trying to put the pieces together in my head.
Of course, the first thing I did was ping Nick, who informed me about the next major villain arc in the comics — and it quickly became clear that the talking zombie is likely just setting up another disappointing misdirect.
Steven Morgan, cyber security expert and CEO of Cybersecurity Ventures, agrees that yes, you can track some hackers via IP addresses, but added that the more sophisticated hackers will try to leave behind spoofed IPs built to misdirect investigators.
This does little except to allow entrepreneurs and public figures to pretend to "have done something about it," and misdirect public attention and resources from solutions that actually fix the systemic issue: the attitudes of men and young boys.
"With UMBRAGE and related projects the CIA cannot only increase its total number of attack types but also misdirect attribution by leaving behind the 'fingerprints' of the groups that the attack techniques were stolen from," the press release said.
The best a non-lying robot can do is stay silent, which may not help the victim much, while the lying robot could actually misdirect the murderer, sending him away from his victim and potentially saving a human life.
I was very tempted to clue ZELDA FITZGERALD as the inspiration for the Eagles' "Witchy Woman," but opted for the clue as is, to clue her by an accomplishment, and possibly misdirect a few solvers into trying SCOTT instead.
I found a wide range of difficulty in the clues, including a couple that were too hard for me to figure out without a peek at the answer key (brought on by an unwise misdirect, which I'll get to).
If the idea is that this is sort of a misdirect, that he&aposs just criticizing these countries because he doesn&apost like NATO generally which is the kind of nastiest possible read on Trump&aposs activity then obviously is that.
This psychological misdirect has built public support for a legal framework that punishes individual litterers with hefty fines or jail time, while imposing almost no responsibility on plastic manufacturers for the numerous environmental, economic and health hazards imposed by their products.
We need to make sure we don't accidentally clue the plural FILMS at 20173 Across as the singular [Movie], because that would be unfair to the solver; in some clues, we want to misdirect solvers, but we always play fair!
But while Lee strings her plot together competently enough — all the red herrings misdirect where they should, and all of the final reveals are foreshadowed appropriately — it's never as compelling as all of the other things her characters are getting up to.
The messages, posted to Facebook on Thursday and Friday and disclosed on the tech platform's advertising transparency website, represent the latest example of the social media giant's willingness to let politicians misdirect users and could revive criticism that the company profits from misinformation.
It's possible that the police are not after the two of them at all and that the audio overlay is a misdirect — the sirens could be for Moe getting caught shoplifting, or for Tabitha if Brady was feeling particularly jilted about the Luca thing.
The officials said the Kremlin was often utilizing what were known as man-in-the-middle attacks, in which hackers secretly inserted themselves into the exchange of data between a computer or server in order to eavesdrop, collect confidential information, misdirect payments or further compromise security.
Today's puzzle has a lot of personality in the fill as well as the theme, which makes for a good Sunday — everywhere I looked there was a stumper, a fun clue, a misdirect, or some infernal pop culture reference that I wasn't cool enough to get.
Hidden within this event, then, are lessons not just for how vehicle designers and computers scientists alike could ensure this never happens again, but also precisely the opposite: how we could design spatial environments deliberately to deceive, misdirect, or otherwise baffle these sorts of semi-autonomous machines.
"Any allegations of non-consensual sex are unequivocally denied by Mr. Weinstein," said the new statement issued to the New Yorker by his spokesperson, as if "non-consensual sex" could itself be anything but an equivocation—a verbal duck-and-weave misdirect to conceal an unspoken truth.
This is all happening in the mid-'90s; Kate, who blames herself for her father's death as an adult, persuaded Jack to make the drive via a phone call when she was a teenager, which is why this elaborate misdirect seemed to portend a drunk-driving accident.
Syria's state news agency SANA quoted a foreign ministry source as saying Erdogan "continues to misdirect Turkish public opinion with his usual froth in an attempt to absolve himself of the crimes which he has committed against the Syrian people through advancing support to the various terrorist groups in Syria".
I could go on and on about misguided resume designs and why people should stop wasting their time freaking out over cover letters, but the above points are the most important in terms of mindsets about the job-getting process and ecosystem that will really misdirect job-seekers' actions and strategies.
It turns out to be a bit of a misdirect — she's just there helping out while Carl recovers from his recent gunshot wound, and enough time has passed that Carl is back on his feet again — but it's enough to plant the idea in your head that Rick and Michonne might make a pretty good couple, an idea the show follows through on in the last five minutes of the episode.
With this puzzle I discovered that Mr. Begin still makes a great misdirect (I last used him in 2001: "Begin, later in life" = PEACE NOBELIST), Mahatma means "Great soul," the national bird of Trinidad and Tobago (Will's clue), McDonald's actually dishes out over 3 million Happy Meals a day, and decaf coffee dispensers often have orange lids because of the original decaf Sanka's can color (though that didn't make the final clue set).

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