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
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
The network employs fake invoices, mislabeled crude and a shadow fleet of tankers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 7, 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
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
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 Slosson, Edwin E.
The online retail giant said the product Which? found listed on its website had been "mislabelled" by a third-party seller and Shein had "taken action against the seller" after removing it from its platform.
From BBC ● Sep. 14, 2025
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
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
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
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
"Food must be safe and accurately labelled, wherever it's sold, and we take food fraud and mislabelling seriously," said Andrew Quinn, head of the FSA's national food crime unit.
From BBC ● Jul. 2, 2026
This helps vendors when related species are difficult to tell apart and is expected to reduce mislabelling.
From Salon ● Oct. 29, 2024
A statistical test found that ambiguous names were more important than mislabelling in hiding threatened species.
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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