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mistakenly

adverb as in wrongly

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Those mistakenly kicked off could use a government ID or provide a video selfie to verify their age, the company said.

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The Bush administration mistakenly thought Iraq’s WMDs would justify the decision to invade.

Perhaps it had been lost in a comical mix-up involving two identical sheaves of paper, in which Penelope’s notes were mistakenly swapped for, say, a collection of soup recipes.

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He also hit the headlines when he was mistakenly released from prison the same day, only to eventually hand himself back in after a short manhunt.

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In a brief submitted to the Commerce Department on Nov. 4, La Molisana argued that the department’s calculations mistakenly treated the pasta company’s net prices, excluding tax, as gross prices.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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