wrongly identified
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The names of the wrongly identified men were shared in posts alongside calls to arrest them.
From Slate • Jan. 28, 2026
Seconds after Max and Mason left Mason's house at about 23:00 GMT, they were wrongly identified by the group as being responsible for bricks being thrown at a house in Hartcliffe earlier that evening.
From BBC • Nov. 19, 2024
Dr Benneyworth cited the example of a patient who was found unresponsive and then wrongly identified by healthcare staff as not wishing to be resuscitated.
From BBC • Dec. 15, 2023
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
Science having been wrongly identified with the so-called natural sciences, it could be foreseen that the remainder would be asked of religion; that remainder with which the human spirit cannot dispense.
From Aesthetic as Science of Expression and General Linguistic by Croce, Benedetto
