Sentence examples for unusual mistake from inspiring English sources

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To be unaware that one's words tap into a monumental fear that exists in a portion of the electorate — a fear that Obama's race could get him killed — is an unusual mistake for a serious and highly disciplined presidential candidate.

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The third quarter found a definite switch in momentum, however, as the visitors began to make unusual mistakes, presenting Salford with a foothold in the game.

Edgar Allan Poe said as much in "The Murders in the Rue Morgue," from 1841, writing about the "elaborate frivolity of chess," where "what is only complex is mistaken (a not unusual error) for what is profound".

It was an unusual mental mistake by Brady but just the first in a cascade of lapses that put the Patriots in an early hole.

At the line speeds at which meatpacking plants in the United States operate -- 390 animals are slaughtered every hour at National, which is not unusual -- mistakes would seem inevitable, but Grandin insists that only rarely does the process break down.

A substitute "W" began to wiggle, walk, and wobble — in a kind of visual, extraprose equivalent of onomatopoeia (the word "path" on "The Electric Company" walks down one) — and ultimately wrestle (a phonemic mistake, unusual on the program) with Kermit until he weakened.

The members felt that "the accident was not the result of a chance malfunction in a statistical sense, but rather resulted from an unusual combination of mistakes, coupled with a somewhat deficient and unforgiving design".

Less unusual is the spelling mistake he makes in the German word "sofort", meaning "immediately", which he spells with two 'f's.

Many other mistakes involve unusual or unfamiliar names.

Putting these pieces together, there can be no mistaking the unusual bifurcation of the recent improvement in the American labor market.

Peter Ebdon, who is colour blind, committed an unusual foul when he mistook the brown for a red before beating Simon Bedford 5-1.

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