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- verb Present participle of
misparse . - noun An instance of incorrect parsing.
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Examples
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There's no obvious Photoshoppery anywhere in that picture, although there are two spots that you could just about be forgiven for visually misparsing if you don't look closely enough.
Daily Fail: You're Going Home In A Freaking Ambulance! Cosmo7 2009
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Thanks to mental misparsing of an abbreviation caused by too-rapid context switching, I am now off imagining a universe in which the abbreviation D&G represents an Italian high fashion institution run by the French philosophers Deleuze and Guattari.
Earth people never look up badger 2007
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You’re apparently misparsing the sentence as “[buffered against evolutionary change] [by natural selection or genetic drift]”, whereas it should be read as “[buffered against] [evolutionary change by natural selection or genetic drift]”.
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