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"ref": "1999, María Rosa Fort Brescia, Moisés Lemlij, At the threshold of the millennium, page 63",
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"text": "But the only thing that he retained of this first study was a certain \"breathlessness\" which is not absent in Shelley, but which assumes quite different form in Browning, and which is in fact the right name for his much mistalked of \"obscurity.\"",
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"ref": "1937, Margaret Gardner Mayorga, editor, The Best One-act Plays of 1937, page 91",
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"text": "For 11 months he's been mistalking about my record, misdirecting it, misstating it.",
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"ref": "2014, Max. Wellspring Oseogena, The Empowered Life!, page 178",
"text": "And then also, those who out of their own self-righteousness or disappointments for those being processed start to misbehave or mistalk and even lose their faith because of this.",
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"ref": "2021, Daai Readington, Teenage rebellion, page 117",
"text": "Nevertheless I went, \"what? Tell me right away, I got kids to play with\" got kids to play with? I mistalked, I really did, they're not my kids.",
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"ref": "2021, Riya Rashmi Dash, Sriya Sri, The Colossal Book, page 13",
"text": "Others, one who mistalk about her were very surprised and ashamed of themselves.",
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"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "1999, María Rosa Fort Brescia, Moisés Lemlij, At the threshold of the millennium, page 63",
"text": "Freud merges the two communicative scenes in his writing : the restricted clinical one with its specificity of talking, mistalking, listening , mislistening, and the larger public one of writing and reading.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2021, Maryse Condé, Crossing the Mangrove",
"text": "Amazed, the audience looked at each other. What had come over their favorite storyteller to mistalk like that?",
"type": "quotation"
}
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],
[
"stutter",
"stutter"
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"mispronounce"
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"text": "But the only thing that he retained of this first study was a certain \"breathlessness\" which is not absent in Shelley, but which assumes quite different form in Browning, and which is in fact the right name for his much mistalked of \"obscurity.\"",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "1937, Margaret Gardner Mayorga, editor, The Best One-act Plays of 1937, page 91",
"text": "I don't aim to mistalk ye. I jest want to tell ye how it was.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "1992 September 27, President George Bush, Remarks to the Community in Wixom, Michigan",
"text": "For 11 months he's been mistalking about my record, misdirecting it, misstating it.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2014, Max. Wellspring Oseogena, The Empowered Life!, page 178",
"text": "And then also, those who out of their own self-righteousness or disappointments for those being processed start to misbehave or mistalk and even lose their faith because of this.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2021, Daai Readington, Teenage rebellion, page 117",
"text": "Nevertheless I went, \"what? Tell me right away, I got kids to play with\" got kids to play with? I mistalked, I really did, they're not my kids.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2021, Riya Rashmi Dash, Sriya Sri, The Colossal Book, page 13",
"text": "Others, one who mistalk about her were very surprised and ashamed of themselves.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
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"To talk inappropriately, misleadingly, mistakenly, or otherwise untruely."
],
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"text": "What you type gets sent across the network immediately. That means your talkee sees exactly what you type, including mistakes and \"mistalks,\" so think before you type!",
"type": "quotation"
},
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"ref": "2007, Shahid Nasim Hyder, Love, Jehad, and Terrorism, page 50",
"text": "The noise came nearer the door and Mian Sahib saw the thrashing of the boy-servant whose crime was mistalk.",
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"ref": "2011, Yemi Adebiyi, The Pastor's Prostitute",
"text": "You are the normal child of the deaf that was told all the mistalk by his mother.",
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