mistaken
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Investors are seeking certainty from the experts, and rather than disabuse them of those mistaken hopes, the pros often reinforce them.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 21, 2026
BBC Sport reported on Friday how Uefa has instructed its VARs not to consider diving under the new mistaken identity protocol, as Fifa has during the World Cup.
From BBC ● Jul. 20, 2026
Unless clear limits are introduced against "mistaken belief" in consent, victims' efforts may be "rendered futile", she told AFP.
From Barron's ● Jul. 20, 2026
As if not wanting to be mistaken for any sort of Good Time, the series presents itself in a desaturated palette, through what can feel at times like a scrim of dust.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 15, 2026
He might be mistaken, he thought, but he was certain that the object moving relentlessly toward the Housatonic was a submarine.
From "Shipwrecked!" by Martin W. Sandler
Vocabulary lists containing mistaken
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Power Suffix: -en
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