mistaken
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When Peet told Shear she is often mistaken for Bell, they reconfigured the moment.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 2, 2026
They return again and again to the phenomenon of experiential change, such as the way that memories may seem accurate or false depending on one’s vantage, or when something original is mistaken for its simulacrum.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 31, 2026
Although he was a convicted criminal and had reportedly broken out of jail three times, Karlson had always maintained that the 1991 incident was a case of mistaken identity.
From BBC • Mar. 30, 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
But pangenetics was overloaded with all the baggage of Darwin’s mistaken theory of hereditary instructions.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
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