erroneous impression

collocation in English

meaningsoferroneousandimpression

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erroneous
adjective
uk
/ɪˈrəʊ.ni.əs/us
/əˈroʊ.ni.əs/
wrong ...
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impression
noun
uk
/ɪmˈpreʃ.ən/us
/ɪmˈpreʃ.ən/
an idea or opinion of what something or someone ...
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(Definition oferroneousandimpressionfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesoferroneous impression

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So, too, samples with distinctly different population parameters can yield identical standardized regression coefficients creating theerroneousimpressionthat the results are similar across studies.
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Now consider the other purported source of the illusion - subjects'erroneousimpressionthat they continuously and consciously represent visual features that are in fact unrepresented.
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The result, if we are right, is anerroneousimpressionof the political landscape.
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Allow me to correct theerroneousimpression, which one or two speakers are clearly under, that it is already a fact of life.
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This express reference creates theerroneousimpressionthat this is not the case.
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Anerroneousimpressionhas thus been created that the parcels in question have failed to reach the addressees.
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I think they will correct theerroneousimpressionwhich has been created by the quotation of words out of their context.
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The present wording of subsection (2) could give anerroneousimpressionthat a specimen provided in a hospital would be analysed at the hospital.
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I venture to suggest that that is a whollyerroneousimpression.
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Will he take steps to correct this obviouslyerroneousimpression?
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There is anerroneousimpressionof the wages in the industry.
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This has perhaps produced theerroneousimpressionthat assistance not available to others has been introduced for the motor car workers.
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It was in order to prevent any sucherroneousimpressiongetting abroad that the chief constable made a public statement on the point.
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I am glad to have an opportunity of correcting theerroneousimpressionwhich has been created by some of the published statements on this matter.
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This might create theerroneousimpressionthat a small price increase is necessarily free from objection.
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That is entirely anerroneousimpression.
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Preliminary negotiations of this kind are of necessity somewhat lengthy and entirely confidential, and this may have conveyed anerroneousimpressionof inaction.
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That creates a completelyerroneousimpression.
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I am glad that subsequent speakers went a long way to correcting that veryerroneousimpression.
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Will he make it clear that this was a totally false anderroneousimpressionand that he had no right to give it?
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