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
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
They expressed concern that suppliers who knowingly mislabel catch will damage the movement.
From Washington Times ● Jun. 13, 2018
In all these cases, the people who we mislabel leaders only followed the will of the people.
From The Guardian ● Nov. 7, 2016
Nike investigators, he said, found at least 28 such mislabeled boxes.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 5, 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
“The issue is fermented grain masquerading as mycelium or mislabeled as mushroom. People are being sold grain powder.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 18, 2025
But if cells were contaminated or mislabeled in research that was cell-specific —as much research was —the results would be worthless.
From "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks" by Rebecca Skloot
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
“We would be disgusted if a butcher was mislabeling their cuts of meats, but then we go around pretending as though the breast of a chicken is its wing?”
From New York Times ● Mar. 14, 2023
Such cases of compulsory mislabeling are not rare.
From Creative Chemistry Descriptive of Recent Achievements in the Chemical Industries by Edwin E. Slosson
Of 223,808 food samples tested across India in 2025 and 2026, nearly one in five, external were found to be "non-conforming" - which means the samples were either unsafe, substandard or mislabelled.
From BBC ● Sep. 7, 2026
The online retail giant said the product Which? found listed on its website had been "mislabelled" by a third-party seller and Shein had "taken action against the seller" after removing it from its platform.
From BBC ● Sep. 14, 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
Natalie fears the extra suncream they bought may have been out-of-date, mislabelled or counterfeit, and has warned other holidaymakers to be careful about products they buy abroad.
From BBC ● Aug. 30, 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
It was not difficult for students to stumble upon examples of mislabelling.
From Salon ● Oct. 29, 2024
We wondered: which is worse for conservation, mislabelling or ambiguous names?
From Salon ● Oct. 29, 2024
The mislabelling took place at the factory, affecting up to one in 250 of Boohoo's global supply of garments between January and October 2023.
From BBC ● Jan. 10, 2024
Airbus acknowledges quality problems but accuses the airline of mislabelling them as a safety issue to secure compensation.
From Reuters ● Feb. 25, 2022
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