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Because it shows up so much earlier than other dementias, its initial symptoms are often mistaken for other conditions: depression, perimenopause, Parkinson’s disease, psychosis.

As they work, the volunteers are sometimes mistaken for criminals sentenced to community service.

Finally, the officers realized that, in fact, this was a case of mistaken identity.”

Given the level of opposition to removing those barriers, Hendry says, Reform UK's zeal for shale gas was mistaken.

From BBC

In the mistaken belief that EncroChat could not be infiltrated, Rothwell inadvertently sealed his own fate when he shared a photograph of himself posing in a mirror.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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