mistaken
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The bigger issue is that investors who stuck with staples, foregoing bigger gains in hopes they would provide a smoother ride, have been sorely mistaken.
From Barron's • Apr. 28, 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
The leaked Internal Affairs report said there was a mistaken “universal belief” within the bomb squad that the containment vessel could safely detonate up to 40 pounds of explosive materials.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 27, 2026
Deputy Prime Minister David Lammy said her findings made clear the "unacceptable" rise in mistaken releases, and that the government would "bring the prison system into the 21st century".
From BBC • Apr. 15, 2026
Brahe at first thought that he had obtained a reliable figure for the parallax of Mars which proved the Ptolemaic system was mistaken, although he later realized that there were problems with it.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
Vocabulary lists containing mistaken
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Power Suffix: -en
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