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verbmisrecall (third-person singular simple present misrecalls, present participle misrecalling, simple past and past participle misrecalled)
present singular third person misrecalls · participle present misrecalling · participle past misrecalled · past misrecalled
- transitiveTo recall incorrectly.
That was the same slogan that Vice President Dan Quayle famously misrecalled in 1989 when he said, “What a waste it is to lose one’s mind.”
2009 August 2, Jack Rosenthal, “A Terrible Thing to Waste”, in New York Times
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APA
misrecall. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/misrecall
MLA
“misrecall.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/misrecall. Accessed November 3, 2026.
Chicago
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “misrecall,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/misrecall.
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