misdate

Example Sentences

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No one asked to confirm the date of his death - which the book misdated by a year.

From Washington Times

No one asked to confirm the date of his death — which the book misdated by a year.

From Seattle Times

Just last month, Fleming and Stern realized they had misdated a tape labeled “Electric Rock Symphony,” assuming it was a 1970s demo for “Metal Machine Music.”

From New York Times

The original letter — long thought lost — in which Galileo Galilei first set down his arguments against the church’s doctrine that the Sun orbits the Earth has been discovered in a misdated library catalogue in London.

From Nature

The research process led to the discovery that some paintings were misdated or bore inaccurate titles that were probably added later by others.

From New York Times