mistaken

Example Sentences

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Improved camera angles make it clearer when officials are mistaken.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 31, 2026

In the heart of Sao Paulo, a "prisonometer" keeps a live tally of people jailed due to Latin America's largest AI facial-recognition system, but its successes have been marred by mistaken arrests.

From Barron's • Mar. 17, 2026

Multiple people told the Washington Post that the school was “on a U.S. target list and may have been mistaken for a military site.”

From Salon • Mar. 13, 2026

Andrew Malkinson was arrested within weeks of the incident and later convicted, spending 17 years in jail on the basis of mistaken eyewitness evidence.

From BBC • Mar. 12, 2026

“You have mistaken me for someone who cares.”

From "Chronicles of a Lizard Nobody" by Patrick Ness