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Misnomer
"Misnomer" in a Sentence (15 examples)
To say that Colombus "discovered" America is a bit of a misnomer because there were plenty of people already here when he arrived.
"Latin America" is a bit of a misnomer, since a significant portion of Canada also speaks a Romance language, French.
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"Koala bear" is a misnomer, since koalas aren't bears.
The "Soviet Union" was a misnomer, as it actually disempowered the soviets and subjugated them to the Communist Party leadership.
Race "realism" is a pseudoscience that seeks confirmation of old-fashioned biases rather than whatever the evidence shows; this makes the term a misnomer.
Root beer is minging – and it's a misnomer.
It's a misnomer to refer to non-crypto-currency as "fiat," since cryptocurrency is also fiat.
She explains that "monkeypox" is a misnomer. The virus is actually carried by rodents which pass the disease along to humans.
Cold War is a misnomer cause the bloodshed in the third world was horrendous.
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Rewilding[…]is also a misnomer, for whether by getting rid of tens of thousands of sheep in Patagonia or introducing a living species as a surrogate for an extinct one – Sayaguesa cattle in place of aurochs in Croatia’s Velebit Mountains, for instance – rewilding requires more human intervention than its name suggests.
[…] plaintiff's misstyling himself as corporation in initial complaint constituted case of misnomer.
The name Chinese checkers is a misnomer since the game has nothing to do with China.
The word blackboard as applied to green or brown chalkboards is a misnomer but is not incorrect, as the broad sense of the word is idiomatic.
It’s a misnomer that all doctors have bad handwriting.
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