Sentence examples for mistaken phrase from inspiring English sources

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This error often shows up in the mistaken phrase "free reign".

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Because Bikini Kill recorded on the Kill Rock Stars label, and was generally contemptuous of mainstream American society, Cobain mistook the phrase for a seditious catch phrase, like "À Nous La Liberte!" or "El Pueblo Unido Jamas Sera Vencido".

The friend mistook the phrase "Gonflez nos pneus" (fill up our tires) for a toast and innocently used it once at a Paris cafe.

They may also sound less like senators if they run early — before they absorb the Beltway vernacular that mistakes phrases like "amendment in the second degree" or "recommit to conference" for comprehensible English.

A key Korean phrase understood to mean the North does have nuclear weapons could have been mistaken for the phrase "entitled to have", Seoul says.

But what about local businesses with names that Siri has never heard, and might mistake for another phrase or the user misspeaking?

"I now think I was mistaken in suggesting that the phrase in use for it is 'setting oneself to cause'" (274).

A competent user perhaps needs at least to "feel the pull" of certain claims, such as that tigers are striped, which she might ultimately nevertheless recognize to be mistaken (in Peacocke's 1992 phrase, they might feel a "primitive compulsion" in this regard even if it turned out to be a compulsion they need to learn to resist!).

It turned out that Manny was the owner of the off licence, and he was calling to tell Jake that he had made a mistake, the phrase he had circled actually just meant "boiled".

These false negatives could reflect failure by patients to read questions and answers carefully, poorly phrased questions and answers, mistaken selection of "No" when "Yes" was the intended answer, failure to comprehend prior diagnoses or intentional entry of false information.

The letter, which began with the denunciatory phrase "J'accuse," blamed the army for covering up its mistaken conviction of Dreyfus.

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