Sentence examples for misidentify from inspiring English sources
The word "misidentify" is correct and usable in written English
You can use it when you want to describe a mistake in identifying or classifying something. For example: "The witness misidentified the suspect in the police lineup."
verb
To mistake the identity.
Until and unless we begin precisely accounting each challenge, we will continue to misidentify each other.
Regulators struggle to catch companies that overharvest within the boundaries of legally granted lands or deliberately misidentify prohibited tree species as legal ones.
Moreover, they misidentify that cause: it is not poverty as such, but inequality.It is a sweeping claim, yet the evidence, here painstakingly marshalled, is hard to dispute.
He would confidently identify or misidentify me as a friend of his, a customer in his delicatessen, a kosher butcher, another doctor — as a dozen different people in the course of a few minutes.
Some maritime experts said the group's monitoring system could also misidentify innocent activity as suspicious behavior.
I love mushrooms, but it's irresponsible not to mention that even expert mycologists can misidentify these fungi with horrible and fatal consequences.
Every journalist needs help shovelling for dirt.Correction: An earlier version of this piece misidentified the subject of a Syrian statue.
In our review of John Patrick Diggins's book, "Why Niebuhr Now?" (July 23rd) we misidentified where Reinhold Niebuhr taught.
If we got the money out of politics, which problems, exactly, would we have solved?Mr Klein then turns to Mr Lessig's "Republic, Lost: How Money Corrupts Congress and a Plan to Stop It", and argues that the good professor has misidentified the real problem.
"We're talking months, not any longer".* This post initially misidentified Ms Tymoshenko as a former president.
Schiller put it starkly: Tell shot the cruel Austrian governor in self-defence, but the killing of the emperor by his nephew, Duke John, was murder, a "crime of blood-imbued ambition".Economist.com/blogs/charlemagneCorrection: We misidentified the right-wing party in the Norwegian government as the Freedom Party, rather than the Progress Party.
