mistake

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

From Barron's ● Oct. 3, 2026

"I regret saying that. That was a mistake," Ferguson would later say.

From BBC ● Oct. 2, 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

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

It was a mistake that would haunt him.

From "Mountain of Fire" by Rebecca E. F. Barone

The mistakes risked bleeding into budgets for years to come.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2026

"We all make mistakes, we all forget things. It's not the end of the world. If you can go back and make a humour of it the audience are quite forgiving and accepting."

From BBC ● Oct. 5, 2026

The mistakes revealed recently are typical because of "the speed and flexibility with which people operate," Robinson wrote.

From Barron's ● Oct. 3, 2026

Barnes, who was out of town at the time, resigned days later, and the mayor has apologized for making mistakes.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 3, 2026

Her fingers were sure and worked quickly without any mistakes.

From "Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes" by Eleanor Coerr

He said afterward that he mistook the plastic fork for a weapon.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 28, 2026

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

A cancer patient had the wrong part of their bowel removed during an operation after a surgeon mistook a tattoo for the site of a tumour, a report has said.

From BBC ● May 24, 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

“And even with the animal—you mistook it for something dangerous.”

From "Kindred" by Octavia Butler

Online sleuths have also tried to locate the addresses of the so-called Cornell Seven, leading to at least one case of mistaken identity.

From BBC ● Oct. 2, 2026

Shortly after the conservative activist Charlie Kirk was assassinated, Patel tweeted that the shooter was in custody; it turned out to be a case of mistaken identity.

From Slate ● Sep. 30, 2026

A shadow can briefly resemble a face, or one object can momentarily be mistaken for another.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 24, 2026

The Gemini hacks resulted from a case of mistaken identity, Google said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026

To do the sort of trades they wanted to do, they needed to be mistaken by the big Wall Street firms for investors who knew their way around a big Wall Street firm.

From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis

That way I never risk mistaking something an AI generated for something I wrote myself.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 9, 2026

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 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

As twins, the brothers - who grew up in Coldingham - are used to people mistaking one for the other.

From BBC ● May 19, 2026

He is smiling in the picture, and there is no mistaking the look in his eyes: Chris McCandless was at peace, serene as a monk gone to God.

From "Into the Wild" by Jon Krakauer