mistaken

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Although he was a convicted criminal and had reportedly broken out of jail three times, Karlson had always maintained that the 1991 incident was a case of mistaken identity.

From BBC • Mar. 30, 2026

Okrent never met Sondheim, he tells us, but he had some near misses: He sat near the composer in the theater on more than one occasion and was even mistaken for him.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 17, 2026

In the heart of Sao Paulo, a "prisonometer" keeps a live tally of people jailed due to Latin America's largest AI facial-recognition system, but its successes have been marred by mistaken arrests.

From Barron's • Mar. 17, 2026

Multiple people told the Washington Post that the school was “on a U.S. target list and may have been mistaken for a military site.”

From Salon • Mar. 13, 2026

At first she thought she must be mistaken.

From "The Long-Lost Home" by Maryrose Wood