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
He later mislabeled the dashcam footage, which kept it out of the homicide file.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 5, 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
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
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
Such cases of compulsory mislabeling are not rare.
From Creative Chemistry Descriptive of Recent Achievements in the Chemical Industries by Edwin E. Slosson
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
His sister Arwen Greenlaw told BBC Newsnight her family was seeking dignity and closure as well as accountability for those who mislabelled her brother's remains.
From BBC ● Aug. 6, 2025
Calgary's mislabelled seafoods has far-reaching and well-documented implications for public health, conservation and the economy.
From Salon ● Oct. 29, 2024
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
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
We wondered: which is worse for conservation, mislabelling or ambiguous names?
From Salon ● Oct. 29, 2024
These results fell within the predicted global rates of seafood mislabelling.
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 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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