mistaken
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That institution comes in for specific criticism from Savouri who quips that the IMF acronym would be more accurate were it to represent the Invariably Mistaken Forecaster providing Grossly Distorted Projections.
From MarketWatch • Apr. 15, 2026
In Kern County: Mistaken for a government agent by foreign spies, Roger Thornhill, played by Cary Grant, is chased across a barren field in Indiana by a crop duster in “North by Northwest.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 16, 2026
At the Restaurant of Mistaken Orders in Sengawa, Tokyo, founded by Akiko Kanna, people stream in to be served by patients suffering from dementia.
From BBC • Dec. 6, 2025
‘Live at the Porpentine — A Comedy of Errors’ Mistaken identities?
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 10, 2022
“I said no such thing, nor did I mean it. Mistaken, Matthew, I hold to that, but not a traitor — yet.”
From "The Witch of Blackbird Pond" by Elizabeth George Speare
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Power Suffix: -en
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