Sentence examples for mistaken one from inspiring English sources

'mistaken one' is a correct and usable phrase in written English
It can be used to refer to someone or something who or which has made a mistake or acted incorrectly. For example, "He was the mistaken one in the end - he should not have trusted the stranger."

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The assumption that lies behind the contact hours issue is a deeply mistaken one.

But Welty had mistaken one significant detail about the killer, as she was nearly bound to have done: his class.

"His [Cameron's] view is that the decision with regard to the foreign affairs committee is a mistaken one," the spokesman said.

It was no such thing, and I confess that, though I'm a fan of Hubbard, I'd never have mistaken one for the other.

The European newspapers also said there had been a list of targets ruled off limits for air strikes that included the Chinese Embassy, at its actual address, not the mistaken one and that the embassy at some point was removed from the list.

There were some missteps in faster songs, including "Wetterfahne," in which the rapidity of the words tripped up the singer's pitches and his dynamics veered as uncontrolledly as the wind-jerked weather vane, perhaps a deliberate effect but a mistaken one.

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Finally, four samples provided in additional submissions were added to the dataset to replace the mistaken ones.

But, in public at least, no one would mistake one for the other.

Mistaking one mushroom for another is a common beginner's error.

"Jesus, that's rough," my father said, after mistaking one for an almond.

This design finds the sampling times that minimize the risk of mistaking one NP support point for another.

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