Example Sentences

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Perhaps, the researchers speculated, the immune system was mistaking friendly human proteins for some viral foe, leading to a lifetime of MS.

From Science Daily • Apr. 19, 2024

No one was mistaking the Rams for underdogs, not with their star-laden roster and their Super Bowl-or-bust approach to this season.

From Washington Post • Feb. 13, 2022

"I think Christine was mistaking my nostalgia for a desire to move back," he said.

From Fox News • Apr. 19, 2021

I thought he was mistaking me for someone else, but he told me that no, I helped open up the offense for everyone else.

From Washington Post • May 3, 2018

I knew him, of course, and I also knew that he was mistaking me for some one else, which made his attentions anything but complimentary.

From Army Letters from an Officer's Wife, 1871-1888 by Roe, Frances Marie Antoinette Mack