mislabel
Americanverb (used with object)
Etymology
Origin of mislabel
Example Sentences
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Purchase whole, head-on finfish whenever possible, as they are harder to mislabel.
From Salon ● Oct. 29, 2024
Investigators will also point to other violations of customs law, such as when smugglers mislabel an item on shipping forms.
From New York Times ● Dec. 13, 2022
He has found that many such trials mislabel one or more arms as “usual care,” sometimes endangering participants and misinforming physicians, which he calls “a big problem.”
From Science Magazine ● Aug. 12, 2021
In all these cases, the people who we mislabel leaders only followed the will of the people.
From The Guardian ● Nov. 7, 2016
He said many private doctors mislabel a cause of death or even fail to fill one out at all, and his office spends a lot of time correcting errors.
From Washington Times ● Dec. 19, 2015
McElwee explains that the numbers on his film reels were mislabeled, causing extended confusion as they tried to put the footage back in the correct, chronological order.
From Salon ● Jul. 24, 2026
An image of Francis Bacon, the English lord chancellor, is mislabeled as the friar Roger Bacon.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 7, 2026
These borrowers were then mislabeled as prime, which gave them access to larger auto loans they otherwise might not have qualified for.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 21, 2025
Department of Commerce began requiring a license or authorization to export these “sensitive technologies” overseas, ALX Solutions was involved in at least 20 unlicensed or mislabeled chip shipments to China through third-party countries.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 5, 2025
On the fourth morning, Soldier Leeg 2 hits a mislabeled pod.
From "Mockingjay" by Suzanne Collins
Small changes in testing protocols could reduce mislabeling, the researchers said.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 23, 2025
In a later controversy, members of the LAPD’s vaunted Metropolitan Division were accused of mislabeling people as gang members.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 28, 2024
The often anonymous posts draw attention to potential image manipulation, data duplication, and mislabeling of figures, and question the statistical significance of results.
From Science Magazine ● Apr. 30, 2024
The policy, known as the “taxonomy,” is meant to stop “greenwashing,” the pervasive practice of mislabeling energy projects as environmentally friendly.
From New York Times ● Jul. 6, 2022
Such cases of compulsory mislabeling are not rare.
From Creative Chemistry Descriptive of Recent Achievements in the Chemical Industries by Edwin E. Slosson
Some waste, for example, is deliberately mislabelled as "second-hand electronic goods for re-sale", only to be smashed up, recycled and smelted once it reaches its destination.
From BBC ● Jun. 26, 2025
We noticed that seafood products with ambiguous names were just as likely to be mislabelled as those with precise names.
From Salon ● Oct. 29, 2024
A seafood product was considered mislabelled if it was sold using a name not found on the Fish List for the DNA-identified species.
From Salon ● Oct. 29, 2024
Social media firms have seen a surge of misinformation about the conflict like doctored images and mislabelled videos.
From BBC ● Oct. 15, 2023
It acted after it said there had been a surge in misinformation on social media about the conflict, such as doctored images and mislabelled videos.
From BBC ● Oct. 12, 2023
"Food must be safe and accurately labelled, wherever it's sold, and we take food fraud and mislabelling seriously," said Andrew Quinn, head of the FSA's national food crime unit.
From BBC ● Jul. 2, 2026
The mislabelling we identified in the Pramipexole leaflets contrasts with the findings of a major study from 2010, funded and partly designed by the drug's own manufacturer.
From BBC ● Mar. 28, 2026
These results fell within the predicted global rates of seafood mislabelling.
From Salon ● Oct. 29, 2024
We discovered that mislabelling is running rampant in Calgary, and that certain product names are more likely to hide species of conservation concern.
From Salon ● Oct. 29, 2024
Airbus has acknowledged quality problems but accused the airline of mislabelling them as safety issues to get compensation.
From Reuters ● Feb. 28, 2022
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