Sentence examples for generally mistaken from inspiring English sources

In reviewing its work The New York Times announced that Mould's effort was "generally mistaken for a miniature penitentiary," and The Real Estate Record and Guide called it "ridiculous".

Uranus had been observed on many occasions before its recognition as a planet, but it was generally mistaken for a star.

People generally mistake me, or Hitchens, for being dogmatic supporters of post 9/11 U.S foreign policy, while we are actually not.

But those are generally mistakes or aberrations; this is the Breitbart.com way of doing business.

The concept of brain death was particularly singled out as a potential barrier to becoming a willing donor, with questions being raised about doctors' ability to determine if a patient met the criteria for brain death or whether the medical profession more generally was mistaken for using brain death as the basis for allowing donation to proceed.

Indeed, in more recent years, I have truncated my first name to just "Jo" but then I generally then get mistaken for a girl: weird for a six foot, 17 stone black guy with dreadlocks!

People who are passingly familiar with David Barton and his Christian nationalist version of American history are generally under the mistaken impression that the reason for his campaign against the separation of church and state is merely to accomplish such things as allowing displays of the ten commandments in courthouses and schools or keeping "under God" in the Pledge of Allegiance.

People generally have the mistaken impression that more power automatically means higher resolution and better viewing, but this is not actually true.

Though many people seem to think it does, philosophers generally think they are mistaken.

In his speech Mr Obama painted conservatives as akin to a primitive tribe intensely united around such totems as climate-change denial or hostility to gay rights, rigid in their belief that government safety nets trap citizens in dependency, and generally prone to mistake "absolutism for principle".

Since folk theories generally turn out to be mistaken, it seems quite improbable that folk psychology will turn out true.