misidentify

Example Sentences

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Commercial aircraft have been accidentally misidentified as hostile by air-defense systems in the past, most recently when Russian defenses mistakenly shot down an Azerbaijani commercial flight in late 2024.

From The Wall Street Journal

Any fans who believed they may have been "misidentified" by the programme have been asked to contact fan support.

From BBC

An earlier version of this article misidentified her organization as Advancing Standards Transforming Markets.

From The Wall Street Journal

The research suggests that the brain may be misidentifying internally generated thoughts as sounds coming from the outside world.

From Science Daily

One alternative idea involves photons that may have been misidentified in earlier experiments or could point to new physics.

From Science Daily