mistake

"He made a mistake that he cannot bring himself to admit," Kasyanov, 68, said in Paris.

From Barron's ● Oct. 3, 2026

When he continued the conversation outside, I tried to shake him, sure there was some sort of mistake.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 2, 2026

Earlier that year, Gunners centre-back Gabriel also made the mistake in a Champions League match against Bayern Munich.

From BBC ● Oct. 1, 2026

Innovating from the inside: Company veterans sometimes aren’t seen as engines of innovation, but Jordan suggested that would be a mistake.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 1, 2026

I get up to follow him downstairs and his face goes back to normal, my mistake erased.

From "Red Flags and Butterflies" by Sheryl Azzam

There have been baffling late-game breakdowns and avoidable mistakes, which inevitably leads to questions for the new head coach, Kyle Whittingham, fresh in from Utah.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 5, 2026

But the film mistakes a chapter for the whole story, and a dramatization for the record.

From Salon ● Oct. 4, 2026

But it does make mistakes when Vera wants to talk about knitting, often mishearing essential words and offering conversations on "biscuits and cakes" and "music, television, the garden or something else".

From BBC ● Oct. 1, 2026

“If developers are running away from the city of L.A., we gotta know why. We gotta go back to the drawing board. We gotta accept when we make mistakes, including myself,” Ugarte said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026

Then play what you have written, noticing where you were correct and where you made mistakes.

From "Understanding Basic Music Theory" by Catherine Schmidt-Jones and Russel Jones

During a nighttime field survey, researchers initially mistook the animal for a mushroom, highlighting just how convincing its disguise is.

From Science Daily ● Jun. 17, 2026

In July 1988, the USS Vincennes mistook an Iran Air commercial plane for a fighter and shot it down soon after takeoff from Dubai, killing 290 civilians.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 5, 2026

At least 59 detainees were freed because the system mistook them for other people.

From Barron's ● Mar. 17, 2026

A resident mistook the toy for a real firearm and called police to report an armed person, he said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 19, 2026

Others mistook malignant changes for infection, sending women home with antibiotics only to have them return later, dying from metastasized cancer.

From "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks" by Rebecca Skloot

Let’s count the ways conventional wisdom could prove mistaken.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 23, 2026

Police in Evanston, Illinois, are reportedly investigating after ICE agents detained and injured a U.S. citizen on Sunday in an apparent case of mistaken identity.

From Slate ● Sep. 23, 2026

"So this came completely out of the blue, off effectively an allegation which must have been either malicious or mistaken."

From BBC ● Sep. 18, 2026

To passersby, we could easily be mistaken for two teenagers hiding in the shadows.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 18, 2026

“If I am not mistaken, Agatha Swanburne once uttered the very same words, but it was certainly not one of her more popular sayings. Wherever did you hear it?”

From "The Unseen Guest" by Maryrose Wood

LZ is especially sensitive to events of this kind, while its design also helps scientists reduce the chances of mistaking ordinary particle interactions for dark matter.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 4, 2026

This would prevent the public from mistaking a committee’s view for membership consensus.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 5, 2026

This is an easy category error for anyone to make when talking about tourism, mistaking a country’s boundless beauty and hospitality toward visitors for anything else.

From Slate ● Jun. 25, 2026

Sabrina Carpenter has apologized after sparking backlash for mistaking a Coachella fan’s traditional Arabic cheer for yodeling, which she described as “weird.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 13, 2026

Nhamo didn’t know what all the words meant, but there was no mistaking the power that filled Baba Joseph.

From "A Girl Named Disaster" by Nancy Farmer