mislabel
Americanverb (used with object)
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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
Binance said this was a “standard measure to preserve investigative integrity, not to bypass controls,” and that the account was mislabeled as “internal” by a junior employee.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 23, 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
Department of Commerce began requiring a license or authorization to export these “sensitive technologies” overseas, ALX Solutions was involved in at least 20 unlicensed or mislabeled chip shipments to China through third-party countries.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 5, 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
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
The policy, known as the “taxonomy,” is meant to stop “greenwashing,” the pervasive practice of mislabeling energy projects as environmentally friendly.
From New York Times ● Jul. 6, 2022
Such cases of compulsory mislabeling are not rare.
From Creative Chemistry Descriptive of Recent Achievements in the Chemical Industries by Edwin E. Slosson
But there is a counter argument, which claims it was mislabelled.
From BBC ● May 1, 2026
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
Earlier this year, the firm was found to have mislabelled some of its clothes, claiming they were made in the UK when they were actually made in South Asia.
From BBC ● Oct. 18, 2024
Social media firms have seen a surge of misinformation about the conflict like doctored images and mislabelled videos.
From BBC ● Oct. 15, 2023
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
It was not difficult for students to stumble upon examples of mislabelling.
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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