labelled

Example Sentences

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They all contained insulin but were relabelled as the weight loss drug.

From BBC • Sep. 27, 2024

But it could have been relabelled as a different fish altogether.

From Salon • May 2, 2023

The 11 stem-cell lines claimed to be patient-specific clones in the 2005 paper turned out to be normal embryonic-stem-cell lines from a fertility hospital that had been relabelled.

From Nature • Jan. 22, 2014

Horse had been mixed with beef to meet specific orders but only for 10 months and it had never been relabelled as beef, he claimed.

From The Guardian • May 24, 2013

The coalition government has tried to improve quality—but some firms have merely relabelled existing training programmes in order to obtain taxpayers’ money.

From Economist • Apr. 25, 2013