as in to misapply
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Recent Examples of misidentify
And schools sometimes misidentify the primary cause.
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Maria Benevento, Kansas City Star, 19 May 2025
Instead, Hubris contains numerous errors concerning chronology, geography, and election details and even misidentifies NATO’s founding members.
—Foreign Affairs, 9 Apr. 2025
But the use of AI and facial recognition could run the risk of misidentifying users ages.
—Clare Duffy, CNN, 13 Mar. 2025
While the gun was not visible to surveillance cameras, Fraser stressed, the system did not misidentify the weapon in this case.
—Amanda Musa, CNN, 1 Feb. 2025
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Maria Benevento, Kansas City Star, 19 May 2025
Instead, Hubris contains numerous errors concerning chronology, geography, and election details and even misidentifies NATO’s founding members.
—Foreign Affairs, 9 Apr. 2025
But the use of AI and facial recognition could run the risk of misidentifying users ages.
—Clare Duffy, CNN, 13 Mar. 2025
While the gun was not visible to surveillance cameras, Fraser stressed, the system did not misidentify the weapon in this case.
—Amanda Musa, CNN, 1 Feb. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for misidentify
Verb
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But sometimes people misapply the word tradition to things that are simply obsolete.—
Joe Rexrode,
The Athletic,
30 Dec. 2024
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Our biased admiration for good fathers is misapplied to a species, such as the bald eagle, in which biparental care is the rule.—
Time,
Time,
17 June 2023
Verb
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In the course of the initiative, Nigel Jeffries, MOLA’s ceramics specialist, has come to believe that witch bottles may have not only been miscategorized but misnamed: these bottles were likely medical objects, rather than magical ones.—
Geoff Manaugh,
The New Yorker,
31 Oct. 2019
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In some cases, police and lawyers inflict further harm by misgendering and misnaming victims.—
Kristin Lam,
USA TODAY,
20 Nov. 2019
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“Misidentify.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/misidentify. Accessed 21 Jul. 2025.
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