Stephen Pagliuca

We really wake up every day trying to build businesses. That is the goal of private equity. It's a misnomer out there that private equity profits by shrinking companies. In fact, it's just the opposite. Private equity creates value by growing great companies.

American Businessman

Michio Kaku

First of all, the Big Bang wasn't very big. Second of all, there was no bang. Third, Big Bang Theory doesn't tell you what banged, when it banged, how it banged. It just said it did bang. So the Big Bang theory in some sense is a total misnomer.

American Physicist

Hilary Knight

I know there are sort of misnomers that women's hockey isn't as physical or fast as the guys, but women's hockey is very dynamic and tactful in its own ways. It's just as respectable of a sport as any male counterpart.

American Athlete

Malcolm Nance

In the media, waterboarding is called 'simulated drowning,' but that's a misnomer. It does not simulate drowning, as the lungs are actually filling with water. There is no way to simulate that. The victim is drowning.

American Author

David Bowie

I think in the '70s that there was a general feeling of chaos, a feeling that the idea of the '60s as 'ideal' was a misnomer. Nothing seemed ideal anymore. Everything seemed in-between.

English Musician

Greg Bear

It's kind of a misnomer about science fiction that science fiction is about anything other than people. It's about people doing stuff, sometimes doing extraordinary stuff.

American Writer

Laura Hillenbrand

This disease leaves people bedridden. I've gone through phases where I couldn't roll over in bed. I couldn't speak. To have it called 'fatigue' is a gross misnomer.

Dinesh D'Souza

War on terror' is a misnomer. It would be like calling America's involvement in World War II a 'war on kamikazism.' Terrorism, like kamikazism, is a tactic.

Indian Author

John Isner

People think when you're struggling and not winning matches it's because you're not working hard. That's the biggest misnomer in tennis.

Soha Ali Khan

It's a misnomer to say that actresses are not smart; they're deeply in touch with their emotions.

Indian Actress

Misnomer is used when names don't fit reality. Think of it as a misleading label.

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Some misnomers persist because of history or tradition, even if they're outdated.

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Don't confuse 'misnomer' with a lie. It implies confusion or inaccuracy, not deceit.

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 by filming themselves swimming alongside and touching great white sharks and other shark species this is big business and while it might call itself a misnomer like ecotourism which would lead to believe it's environmentally conscientious it's more likely to be categorized as wildlife tourism or

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 The whole idea of a lone wolf is a misnomer. While there are white supremacists who may never in real life meet another white supremacist, that doesn't mean they're not connected. The internet is a technological game changer, amplifying lies and weaponizing propaganda like never before.

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 The first guy goes, and you're just in line, and you just kind of lumber to the door. Jump is a misnomer; you fall. You fall outside the door, you're caught in the slipstream. The first thing you do is lock into a tight body position -- head down in your chest, your arms extended,

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 America but that name is a bit of a misnomer because they never lose consciousness when they keel over if they're startled a genetic condition causes their muscles to lock up but it only lasts a few moments and then they're back on their feet they'll till the next time

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 When that happens, she's able to produce two different kinds of milk, one for her newborn, and one for her older joey. The word mammalia means of the breast, which is a bit of a misnomer because while kangaroos do produce milk from nipples in their pouches,

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 but "small-scale" is a misnomer for a fleet comprising over 90 percent of the world's fishermen and women. Their fishing is generally more selective and sustainable than the indiscriminate destruction too often wrought by bigger industrial boats.

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 what I think isn't interesting about the term misdirection is it it's misnomer most people think it means look at this hand while I do something with this room but actually what I want to do is direct

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 to shorten the response time, but now we can begin to do the response in parallel. Everybody can see the data. We can shorten it that way. So really, "disaster robotics" is a misnomer.

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 and we're going to take the risk tonight to try to fabricate it onstage during this 10-minute talk. Wish us luck. Now, 3D printing is actually a misnomer.

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 here's the secret here about wildlife management while ice management is really a misnomer it's

Misnomer

A name or term that suggests a wrong or misleading idea.

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