wrongly identified
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This group of New York City residents said that the Department of Finance had wrongly identified them as second-home owners despite living in the city as their primary residence for years.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 29, 2026
The names of the wrongly identified men were shared in posts alongside calls to arrest them.
From Slate ● Jan. 28, 2026
Prosecutor Ray Tully QC told the jury of nine men and three women how the pair had been wrongly identified as being responsible for a separate attack on a home in Hartcliffe earlier that evening.
From BBC ● Oct. 14, 2024
Elsewhere, a commercial plane flying over Moscow - a Cessna 172 - has been wrongly identified as a drone on the Telegram social messaging platform, popular in Russia.
From BBC ● May 30, 2023
The Birs, which was situated within the city of Borsippa, has been wrongly identified with the Tower of Babel.
From A Dweller in Mesopotamia Being the Adventures of an Official Artist in the Garden of Eden by Donald Maxwell