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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
misconceive .
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Examples
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"canon debate" has been "misconceived from the start," and second, that this misconceived debate symptomatically registers a "crisis in literary study"
Professing Literature: John Guillory's Misreading of Paul de Man 2005
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Without a comprehensive federal approach, the president said, state and local authorities would continue to take "misconceived" steps at addressing the illegal immigration problem such as the recently enacted Arizona law that allows police to ask anyone for proof of legal U.S. residency.
Obama calls for Congress to work now on immigration reform 2010
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Without a comprehensive federal approach, the president said, state and local authorities would continue to take "misconceived" steps at addressing the illegal immigration problem such as the recently enacted Arizona law that allows police to ask anyone for proof of legal U.S. residency.
Obama calls for Congress to work now on immigration reform 2010
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"That's why we have to close the door on this kind of misconceived action by meeting our obligations here in Washington."
Obama urges work on immigration bill 'to begin ... this year' 2010
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"That's why we have to close the door on this kind of misconceived action by meeting our obligations here in Washington."
President Obama wants to begin working on immigration reform this year 2010
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Okay, to start with, Pielke is a regular in the global warming/skeptic community, and has been caught with "misconceived" (to be polite) analysis attacking Global Warming.
A. Siegel: New York Times Stands in Solidarity with Washington Post 2009
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Quoted examples are given as when Vice President Ramon Carrizales went on Jose Vicente Rangel's TV show on Televen to explain the meaningfulness of the new Intelligence & Counter intelligence Act concurrent with President Chavez 'on-air decision to abrogate the selfsame law as "misconceived" and "not fully thought out!"
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The treasury said the application to review Manuel's decision was, in law, "misconceived".
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Of "War Horse," which Mr. Ellis called a "misconceived fail," "I think it was an impulse move.
L.A. Nights: Bret Easton Ellis at the Movies Marshall Heyman 2011
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'misconceived' doctor was the victim of "misconceived" disciplinary action by the fertility watchdog that suggested it was campaigning against his right to practise, its chief
WN.com - Articles related to Fresh outbreak of bird flu in West Bengal 2010
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