mistaken
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“It just shouldn’t be mistaken for anything serious.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 16, 2026
That tone carried through again here, as the incident became another example of how quickly false or mistaken reports can circulate and how quickly they can collapse under correction and context.
From Salon • Apr. 11, 2026
At any moment, she thought she might cross paths with Halle Berry — the similarly named actress she’s often mistaken for — on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 10, 2026
The splitter’s decline was due to a mistaken belief it caused elbow injuries, but modern data shows it puts less torque on the elbow.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 31, 2026
The search for the Northwest Passage, or the attempt to explain planetary motion on the model of magnetism, were mistaken but useful.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
Vocabulary lists containing mistaken
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Power Suffix: -en
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