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
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
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
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
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
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 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
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
Calgary's mislabelled seafoods has far-reaching and well-documented implications for public health, conservation and the economy.
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
Authorities said the maps mislabelled "Taiwan province", without specifying what exactly the mislabelling was.
From BBC ● Oct. 15, 2025
A statistical test found that ambiguous names were more important than mislabelling in hiding threatened species.
From Salon ● Oct. 29, 2024
Several examples of mislabelling involved substituting an expensive product for a cheaper species: tilapia for snapper, rainbow trout for Atlantic salmon.
From Salon ● Oct. 29, 2024
The FSA started its initial investigation about mislabelling of products in August 2021 and seized more than six million documents, which it said are now being gone through.
From BBC ● Mar. 31, 2023
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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