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/mɪsaɪˈdɛnəˌfaɪ, mɪsaɪˈdɛntəˌfaɪ/
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identify incorrectly
Don't mistake her for her twin sister
How To Use misidentify In A Sentence
- As an avid pro-choice supporter, I want to be on the “right” side, so I should get in line with formerstate Rep. Wanda Jo Stapleton, who puts forth that “Nosy neighbors with some effort could identify or, even worse, misidentify these women who answer these questions.” Oklahoma to collect abortion information « Biodork
- I began the day by intentionally misidentifying seals as penguins.
- Dick Stockton, the blandest, most resolutely inept announcer the nation has ever produced, turns up everywhere: on TBS misidentifying the right fielder in the Major League Baseball playoffs, then later that same weekend getting everything wrong during the football game on Fox. Revenge of the 60-Year-Old Has-Beens
- Plans for a national ID card scheme have been branded ‘farcical’ after suggestions it might misidentify people with brown eyes or men who go bald.
- Only 17 percent of the respondents were able to accurately identify at least one type of primary care physician without also misidentifying non-primary care specialists or non-physicians as primary care physicians.
- The first question is about may I misidentify this is to people are not only rule breakers, but they often come in not even knowing the rules, and so consequently not tied to them.
- Did the Israelis misidentify a school run by the UN Relief Works Agency (UNRWA), where 43 Palestinians seeking shelter were killed in an early morning air strike? Matthew Yglesias » Self-Defense
- People misidentify wildlife all the time, even when you think there is no way a certain creature can be mistaken for something else. How many people out there think or know there are mountain lions in your state? Please remember to list your state.
- Response error refers to a misrecording of information on a detected individual, such as misidentifying one species for another.
- The media doesn't "misidentify" pit bulls, although occasionally it gets facts wrong, because sometimes things aren't completely clear. The Clog