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Example sentences for: misconception

How can you use “misconception” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

Unfortunately, the authors perpetuate the extremely common misconception that enophthalmos accompanies ptosis and miosis in human Horner Syndrome.
The odd misconception that NATO would bomb the American Center.
Day trading is predicated on a fundamental misconception about the nature of stock prices, namely that they are somehow persistent and predictable.
A thread running through all these mistaken etymologies is that their supporters think that the only criterion in etymology is “if it sounds like x , then it must be derived from x .” That misconception can be seen on a grand scale in Isaac Mozeson's The Word: The Dictionary That Reveals the Hebrew Source of English, which purports to show that about 22,000 (!) English words are of Hebrew origin.
Perhaps the real misconception about the unfair burden that open access places on authors resides in the terminology—the term “author charge” is itself misleading.