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
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
It’s no great tragedy if they mislabel 1 percent of cats as dogs, or send you to the wrong movie on occasion, but in something like a self-driving car we all want greater assurances.
From New York Times ● Dec. 14, 2016
In all these cases, the people who we mislabel leaders only followed the will of the people.
From The Guardian ● Nov. 7, 2016
Otherwise, Las Vegas, in May, risks becoming an unregulated public-health experiment mislabeled as a sporting event.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 23, 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
Samples are sent to an independent lab for sophisticated chemical and physical testing that can detect if an oil is adulterated, degraded or mislabeled.
From Seattle Times ● May 20, 2024
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
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
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
Such cases of compulsory mislabeling are not rare.
From Creative Chemistry Descriptive of Recent Achievements in the Chemical Industries by Slosson, Edwin E.
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
Calgary's mislabelled seafoods has far-reaching and well-documented implications for public health, conservation and the economy.
From Salon ● Oct. 29, 2024
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
But in the accompanying map, the six numbered blocks had been lumped into one, and mislabelled as block 2220.
From BBC ● Apr. 5, 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
If you eat seafood, you could be unknowingly consuming an endangered species without realizing it due to fish mislabelling.
From Salon ● Oct. 29, 2024
We discovered that mislabelling is running rampant in Calgary, and that certain product names are more likely to hide species of conservation concern.
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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