mistake

"He made a mistake that he cannot bring himself to admit," Kasyanov, 68, said in Paris.

From Barron's ● Oct. 3, 2026

"I regret saying that. That was a mistake," Ferguson would later say.

From BBC ● Oct. 2, 2026

“This was an inexcusable mistake and I take full responsibility. What I did does not reflect my values or the man I strive to be for my family.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 2, 2026

Innovating from the inside: Company veterans sometimes aren’t seen as engines of innovation, but Jordan suggested that would be a mistake.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 1, 2026

She tells me the same thing that Rue did—it’s a mistake to get to know these people.

From "Split the Sky" by Marie Arnold

Badenoch added: "Just like M&S, we must learn from our mistakes, win back trust and make people feel good about our party again."

From BBC ● Oct. 7, 2026

America can lead the next generation of financial technology without repeating the mistakes of the last one.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 5, 2026

But the film mistakes a chapter for the whole story, and a dramatization for the record.

From Salon ● Oct. 4, 2026

The mistakes revealed recently are typical because of "the speed and flexibility with which people operate," Robinson wrote.

From Barron's ● Oct. 3, 2026

In general, she noticed that Pel didn’t like making mistakes or being wrong.

From "Mountains Beyond Mountains" by Tracy Kidder and Michael French

He has attended so many of her meetings that some foreign officials mistook him for her chief of staff.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 2026

He said afterward that he mistook the plastic fork for a weapon.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 28, 2026

During a nighttime field survey, researchers initially mistook the animal for a mushroom, highlighting just how convincing its disguise is.

From Science Daily ● Jun. 17, 2026

A woman says doctors mistook her endometriosis for irritable bowel syndrome, as new figures show diagnosis delays are getting longer.

From BBC ● Apr. 8, 2026

Others mistook malignant changes for infection, sending women home with antibiotics only to have them return later, dying from metastasized cancer.

From "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks" by Rebecca Skloot

A shadow can briefly resemble a face, or one object can momentarily be mistaken for another.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 24, 2026

Let’s count the ways conventional wisdom could prove mistaken.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 23, 2026

Police in Evanston, Illinois, are reportedly investigating after ICE agents detained and injured a U.S. citizen on Sunday in an apparent case of mistaken identity.

From Slate ● Sep. 23, 2026

"So this came completely out of the blue, off effectively an allegation which must have been either malicious or mistaken."

From BBC ● Sep. 18, 2026

Ripples spread in silent, ever-increasing circles across the smooth surface of what they all had mistaken for solid ground.

From "Rowan of Rin" by Emily Rodda

LZ is especially sensitive to events of this kind, while its design also helps scientists reduce the chances of mistaking ordinary particle interactions for dark matter.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 4, 2026

Over his four seasons as USC’s coach, there’s no mistaking what’s held Riley back from reaching the same heights at USC as he had at Oklahoma.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 9, 2026

Millard Fillmore, Franklin Pierce and James Buchanan each pursued compromise as an end, thus mistaking delay for statesmanship.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 30, 2026

This is an easy category error for anyone to make when talking about tourism, mistaking a country’s boundless beauty and hospitality toward visitors for anything else.

From Slate ● Jun. 25, 2026

Annabelle talked tough, but there was no mistaking the fear in her eyes.

From "The Wild Robot Escapes" by Peter Brown