mistaken
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"Future kilonovae events may not look like GW170817 and may be mistaken for supernovae," Kasliwal says.
From Science Daily • Apr. 24, 2026
“It just shouldn’t be mistaken for anything serious.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 16, 2026
It came as the findings of an independent review criticised recent mistaken releases as "simply one symptom of a broken system".
From BBC • Apr. 15, 2026
That tone carried through again here, as the incident became another example of how quickly false or mistaken reports can circulate and how quickly they can collapse under correction and context.
From Salon • Apr. 11, 2026
The small glimmer of hope he had held that she might be mistaken is crushed in three simple words.
From "The Night Circus" by Erin Morgenstern
Vocabulary lists containing mistaken
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Power Suffix: -en
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