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be mistaken



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The store, which has been in business for seven years, could be mistaken for a neighborhood gift shop.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 6, 2026

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

“I think you must be mistaken, my dear Spiker. That miserable tree never has any peaches on it.”

From "James and the Giant Peach" by Roald Dahl




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