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be mistaken



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Paul Tudor Jones, the billionaire hedge-fund manager who founded Tudor Investment Corp. in 1980, thinks those investors would be mistaken.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 28, 2026

She worked alongside her degree, mainly doing bar-work - not to be mistaken with Bar work - and is a trained mixologist, an expert in making cocktails.

From BBC • Apr. 26, 2026

"Future kilonovae events may not look like GW170817 and may be mistaken for supernovae," Kasliwal says.

From Science Daily • Apr. 24, 2026

“It just shouldn’t be mistaken for anything serious.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 16, 2026

“Was it never? I must be mistaken then.”

From "The Knife of Never Letting Go" by Patrick Ness




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