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misresearch en · VERB

Etymology

From mis- + research.

Meanings

1. To make errors while researching (a subject).
   • In the interest of understanding and stewarding complexity and holism, I ask how educational research makes use of studying parts at the expense of the whole and how that has facilitated a trend to misframe and misresearch inequity. 2015, Leigh Patel, Decolonizing Educational Research:
   • The fact that Smith has misresearched some details about Mangal Pande, as some critics have recurrently complained, only adds, if unwittingly, to the improbable nature of Samad's reveries, and reveals the motives behind them. 2006, Ansgar Nünning, Marion Gymnich, Roy Sommer, Literature and Memory: Theoretical Paradigms, Genres, Functions, page 297:
   • As much as McCrea's claim brings up many thought-provoking and uncomfortable questions, my concern is that not only does he manipulate Addison's theory of wit and imagination but that his manipulations are based on misresearched claims. 2016, Klára Bicanová, From Rhetoric to Aesthetics, page 131:

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