mistaken
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Although he was a convicted criminal and had reportedly broken out of jail three times, Karlson had always maintained that the 1991 incident was a case of mistaken identity.
From BBC • Mar. 30, 2026
It is mistaken to say that violence committed in the name of this insight has nothing to do with Islam, just as it is wrong to think of Islam as an inherently violent religion.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 19, 2026
Okrent never met Sondheim, he tells us, but he had some near misses: He sat near the composer in the theater on more than one occasion and was even mistaken for him.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 17, 2026
In the heart of Sao Paulo, a "prisonometer" keeps a live tally of people jailed due to Latin America's largest AI facial-recognition system, but its successes have been marred by mistaken arrests.
From Barron's • Mar. 17, 2026
Ripples spread in silent, ever-increasing circles across the smooth surface of what they all had mistaken for solid ground.
From "Rowan of Rin" by Emily Rodda
Vocabulary lists containing mistaken
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Power Suffix: -en
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