Expecting but not getting a single instance

The name of a method indicates that a single object is returned but the return type is a collection.

Example: method getExpansion returning a list.

Related smells: Expecting but not getting a collection

Reference

Venera Arnaoudova, Massimiliano Di Penta, Giuliano Antoniol. “Linguistic antipatterns: what they are and how developers perceive them". in Empirical Software Engineering (ESEM), 21(1), Feb 2016. 104-158. 10.1007/s10664-014-9350-8