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
Nike investigators, he said, found at least 28 such mislabeled boxes.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 5, 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
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
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
Take fish fraud, or the widespread practice of mislabeling seafood so that consumers aren't eating what they think they purchased.
From Salon ● Apr. 22, 2023
“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
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
Calgary's mislabelled seafoods has far-reaching and well-documented implications for public health, conservation and the economy.
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
But in the accompanying map, the six numbered blocks had been lumped into one, and mislabelled as block 2220.
From BBC ● Apr. 5, 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
These results fell within the predicted global rates of seafood 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 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 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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