misidentify
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To talk about the high cost of housing, however, is to misidentify the problem.
From Slate ● Nov. 4, 2025
"We've found that many respondents misidentify a warning as a watch, which means conditions are favorable for a tornado," Armstrong said.
From Science Daily ● May 9, 2024
"Why lie about this and why misidentify the payment if it was legal? And second, your response to that theory of the case?"
From Salon ● Mar. 15, 2023
Plus, many people misidentify butterflies, notes Sarabia, so a guide can help you safely spot them.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 26, 2023
“How could this major airline misidentify a passenger in such a grotesque and negligent way, to cause such harm,” Mr. Lowe said.
From Washington Times ● Jun. 9, 2022
According to this hypothesis, the systems briefly misidentified the aircraft as being on the ground, prompting a protection system to interpret high engine thrust as a malfunction and cut fuel to both engines.
From BBC ● Jun. 15, 2026
When you get recognized out in public or somebody knows they know you from something, who have you been misidentified as?
From Los Angeles Times ● May 26, 2026
An earlier version of this report misidentified the titles of Vital Lyfe’s founders.
From MarketWatch ● May 7, 2026
The tools -- prompted in four languages -- not only misidentified authentic text as AI-generated but also attempted to monetize those errors.
From Barron's ● Mar. 30, 2026
Then, in the 1980s, local divers stumbled upon it but misidentified it as a Dutch merchant ship.
From "Shipwrecked!" by Martin W. Sandler
The research suggests that the brain may be misidentifying internally generated thoughts as sounds coming from the outside world.
From Science Daily ● Jan. 23, 2026
“Silver prices fluctuate, but misidentifying items can cost far more than waiting for a slightly better spot price.”
From MarketWatch ● Dec. 31, 2025
Elon Musk's AI chatbot Grok churned out misinformation about Australia's Bondi Beach mass shooting, misidentifying a key figure who saved lives and falsely claiming that a victim staged his injuries, researchers said Tuesday.
From Barron's ● Dec. 16, 2025
Couples with "baskets of bottled beer and blankets", children wildly misidentifying pigeons and press photographers resignedly legging it around the grass in an attempt to get their shot all added to the chaos.
From BBC ● Mar. 2, 2025
She wasn’t getting high on evidence, but she was consistently misidentifying samples, and claimed to have tested substances that she’d never in fact examined.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 16, 2023
