misprint
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The shop’s only signage — save for the misprint in the back — graces the top half of its glass front door.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 16, 2025
The tale of the misprint, and the ever-increasing sale prices, began to make the Inverted Jenny famous enough to be a cultural reference.
From New York Times ● Nov. 14, 2023
Reaching the conclusion that what she had on her hands was not what commenters suggested was a "haunted" or "cursed" album, but a comical and likely valuable misprint, she laughed it off.
From Salon ● Jul. 12, 2023
The edition donated to the British Heart Foundation is thought to be incredibly rare, featuring a misprint unique to the first version of the record of which there are only 10,000 copies.
From BBC ● May 16, 2023
Furthermore, whoever would name their offspring after the Emancipation Proclamation should blame themselves for any misprint.
From "Moon Over Manifest" by Clare Vanderpool
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An academic who was tasked with editing the Bible on which King Charles will swear his Coronation Oath has spoken about why he decided to include hundreds of misprints.
From BBC ● May 6, 2023
In 1993, 49 percent of Black children and 52 percent of Hispanic children were poor — figures that now look like misprints.
From New York Times ● Sep. 11, 2022
Even the misprints are faithfully preserved: Peter Criss' solo single "You Matter To Me" appears as "You Still Matter To Me" on the label.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 20, 2012
It is tempting to wonder whether some curious misprints – "luther" for either; "bort" for both – constitute a sly joke about our own language-processing abilities.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 20, 2010
There are also likely to be small slipups and mistakes that can be spotted in much the same way as misprints in a text.
From "History of Art, Volume 1" by H.W. Janson
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The brand’s new owner, Spangler Candy Company, reintroduced Sweethearts to the candy market in 2020, though limited availability and production issues resulted in misprinted and blank candies.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 14, 2024
Only one block of 100 of the misprinted stamps went public.
From New York Times ● Nov. 14, 2023
Baxter explained that he didn’t even know about the situation until the misprinted shirts started getting attention.
From Fox News ● Jul. 20, 2021
The company said Tuesday that it was working with China customs authorities on resuming clearance procedures that were disrupted due to misprinted labels on some of the sedans.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 5, 2019
It's a letter from Lev, written on the backs of misprinted forms and wrapped in an envelope fashioned from a sheet of newsprint.
From "What the Night Sings" by Vesper Stamper
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Turnbull perpetuates 1670's misprint of 'in' for 'with' in line 2, and adds one of his own in line 26, by misprinting 'guest' for 'guests.'
From The Complete Works of Richard Crashaw, Volume I (of 2) by Richard Crashaw
Also where the employment or omission of a capital is plainly due to misprinting, as too frequently in the 1673 edition, I silently make the correction.
From The Poetical Works of John Milton by John Milton
Mr. Westcott's book confuses this portion of his chronology by misprinting two or three dates, on the 113th page.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 02, No. 11, September, 1858 by Various
This is a valuable work, but marred, especially in the first volume, by the unparalleled misprinting, the engagements of the author not permitting him to correct the proofs.
From History of the Colony and Ancient Dominion of Virginia by Charles Campbell
The secret feuds of suppressing, misplacing, and misprinting, which it has carried on against us, have long deserved that this declaration should be held in honorable remembrance, and that continuously.
From The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 03 Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English. in Twenty Volumes by Kuno Francke
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