mistaken
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"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
A rare marble sculpture could fetch up to £18,000 at auction after it spent more than seven decades sitting outside, mistaken for a garden ornament.
From BBC ● Sep. 15, 2026
He also chose a hairstyle patterned after the Mandinka warriors of West Africa — which has been commonly mistaken for a mohawk.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2026
Scientists at the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador have formally described Pristimantis milpe, a common and widespread frog that spent more than a century being mistaken for another species.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 5, 2026
I had thought all the rooms at Thornfield beautifully clean and well arranged; but it appears I was mistaken.
From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë
Vocabulary lists containing mistaken
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Power Suffix: -en
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