mislabel
Americanverb (used with object)
Etymology
Origin of mislabel
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Purchase whole, head-on finfish whenever possible, as they are harder to mislabel.
From Salon ● Oct. 29, 2024
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
It’s no great tragedy if they mislabel 1 percent of cats as dogs, or send you to the wrong movie on occasion, but in something like a self-driving car we all want greater assurances.
From New York Times ● Dec. 14, 2016
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
Nike investigators, he said, found at least 28 such mislabeled boxes.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 5, 2026
He is accused of heading a company that routinely mislabeled shipments to evade taxes on fuel imported from Texas.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 3, 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
Officers potentially wasting thousands of hours in pursuit of car backfires and construction noise mislabeled as gunfire has not deterred the New York Police Department from continuing to use it.
From Salon ● Feb. 8, 2026
I wish as I write these things that I could be angry at those who mislabeled me.
From "Hunger of Memory" by Richard Rodriguez
Small changes in testing protocols could reduce mislabeling, the researchers said.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 23, 2025
Ultimately, some DWP and Accenture staffers found a way for the DWP to pick up the tab, by mislabeling the invoices for McClain-Hill and another DWP official, according to current and former DWP workers.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 22, 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
In 1993, he pleaded guilty to mislabeling around 1 million gallons of wine, having for five years used less expensive grapes to make wine sold as zinfandel and cabernet sauvignon.
From New York Times ● Sep. 15, 2022
Such cases of compulsory mislabeling are not rare.
From Creative Chemistry Descriptive of Recent Achievements in the Chemical Industries by Edwin E. Slosson
But there is a counter argument, which claims it was mislabelled.
From BBC ● May 1, 2026
However, big parcels, for which couriers would be paid more per delivery, keep getting mislabelled as small packets, some couriers told the BBC.
From BBC ● Dec. 15, 2025
According to Keystone Law partner James Healy-Pratt, a lawyer representing 25 families of the disaster's victims, a "diplomatic incident" occurred over the mislabelled remains.
From BBC ● Sep. 10, 2025
If sockeye salmon was sold as salmon without any other qualifier, it was considered mislabelled.
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
"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
We wondered: which is worse for conservation, mislabelling or ambiguous names?
From Salon ● Oct. 29, 2024
If you eat seafood, you could be unknowingly consuming an endangered species without realizing it due to fish mislabelling.
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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