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Other California Democrats rallied behind Padilla after the misnaming incident.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 21, 2025

This sort of misnaming goes back at least as far as the Romans, who expanded their empire through a process they called “pacification.”

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 18, 2022

The usage infantilizes both the reader and the book’s subject, adding to a centuries-long history of disrespectful misnaming — a history that White himself contested by entitling his autobiography “A Man Called White.”

From New York Times • Feb. 8, 2022

I think we have a habit of misnaming political experiences in ways that help us metabolize loss.

From Slate • Sep. 21, 2020

As "NOBBS" comes first, Mr. Punch adopts it, he hopes without misnaming the illustrious veteran.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 102, February 13, 1892 by Various