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
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
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
Police later learned Johnson mislabeled his dashcam footage, which prevented the recording from being included in the homicide investigation file.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 21, 2025
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
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
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
Apart from the charges against the individual officers, the mislabeling scandal led prosecutors to drop various criminal cases that relied on the testimony of the charged officers and also sparked state and local reforms.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 27, 2022
Such cases of compulsory mislabeling are not rare.
From Creative Chemistry Descriptive of Recent Achievements in the Chemical Industries by Slosson, Edwin E.
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
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
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
If sockeye salmon was sold as salmon without any other qualifier, it was considered mislabelled.
From Salon ● Oct. 29, 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
Authorities said the maps mislabelled "Taiwan province", without specifying what exactly the mislabelling was.
From BBC ● Oct. 15, 2025
This helps vendors when related species are difficult to tell apart and is expected to reduce mislabelling.
From Salon ● Oct. 29, 2024
A statistical test found that ambiguous names were more important than mislabelling in hiding threatened species.
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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