wrongly identified

Example Sentences

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In a brief reply, Mr Bu denied that the agency had sent abroad any children wrongly identified as orphans during his tenure.

From BBC • May 23, 2025

These self-styled detectives have wrongly identified Capitol rioters, like a retired firefighter who was 700 miles away.

From Slate • Aug. 12, 2021

And in 2013, she won the exoneration of a man by proving that two witnesses wrongly identified him at trial.

From New York Times • Jun. 30, 2021

Correction: An earlier version of this story wrongly identified the location of a mass shooting in New Zealand.

From Washington Post • Apr. 3, 2021

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 Maxwell, Donald