wrongly identified
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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
From 1998 until his release in 2016, Mr. Rosario sent hundreds of handwritten letters to lawyers, advocates and other authorities, seeking evidence that witnesses had wrongly identified him at trial.
From New York Times • May 7, 2022
These self-styled detectives have wrongly identified Capitol rioters, like a retired firefighter who was 700 miles away.
From Slate • Aug. 12, 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