be mistaken

Example Sentences

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The last thing they want is for F1 to be mistaken for Formula E, the fully electric racing series launched by the FIA in 2014.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 1, 2026

Paul Tudor Jones, the billionaire hedge-fund manager who founded Tudor Investment Corp. in 1980, thinks those investors would be mistaken.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 28, 2026

She worked alongside her degree, mainly doing bar-work - not to be mistaken with Bar work - and is a trained mixologist, an expert in making cocktails.

From BBC • Apr. 26, 2026

"Future kilonovae events may not look like GW170817 and may be mistaken for supernovae," Kasliwal says.

From Science Daily • Apr. 24, 2026

He might be mistaken, he thought, but he was certain that the object moving relentlessly toward the Housatonic was a submarine.

From "Shipwrecked!" by Martin W. Sandler