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
He later mislabeled the dashcam footage, which kept it out of the homicide file.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 5, 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
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
Few kept clear records of which cells grew from which donors, and many mislabeled their cultures, if they labeled them at all.
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
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 Slosson, Edwin E.
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
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
If sockeye salmon was sold as salmon without any other qualifier, it was considered mislabelled.
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
Earlier this year, customs stepped up inspections of heavy crude cargoes headed to Shandong after finding several Iranian shipments mislabelled as diluted bitumen to bypass import quotas.
From Reuters ● Oct. 11, 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
Authorities said the maps mislabelled "Taiwan province", without specifying what exactly the mislabelling was.
From BBC ● Oct. 15, 2025
It was not difficult for students to stumble upon examples of mislabelling.
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 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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