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misidentify

[mis-ahy-den-tuh-fahy, -i-den-] / ˌmɪs aɪˈdɛn təˌfaɪ, -ɪˈdɛn- /


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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

A teenager wrongly believed to have died in a car crash was misidentified by police through visual checks as no forensic tests were initially carried out, a coroner has been told.

From BBC

An earlier version of this article misidentified him as Greg Noble.

From Barron's