mistake
Example Sentences
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"HUGE MISTAKE" Beijing has been reluctant to apply pressure to Pyongyang, fearing the instability that could result if the North were to implode and send floods of refugees into China.
From Reuters • Apr. 13, 2013
MAYOR'S MISTAKE: Boston Mayor Thomas Menino botched NBA commissioner David Stern's name at a community service event on Wednesday morning, calling him "Donald Sterns."
From Seattle Times • Jun. 10, 2010
A tip-top swell, I can assure you," said Eglantine, nodding after him: "a regular bang-up chap, and no MISTAKE.
From Men's Wives by Thackeray, William Makepeace
And a story was told that a certain lady had taken, BY MISTAKE, a cloak which did not belong to her, at a rout given by the Countess of ——.
From The Gaming Table: Its Votaries and Victims Volume I (of II) by Steinmetz, Andrew
Vocabulary lists containing mistake
"The Experiment" and "Superstition"
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"Indian Summer Sun" and "Almost Evenly Divided"
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"Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening"
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