How to Use misidentify in a Sentence

misidentify

verb
  • And people often misidentify this body of water as the Potomac or the Patuxent.
    — Reader Commentary, Baltimore Sun, 13 May 2024
  • But Leitao, who spent much of his early coaching career at UConn, has been around too long to misidentify the real challenge.
    — Dom Amore, courant.com, 28 Dec. 2020
  • But soon, a group of preppy teens misidentifies them as murderers in a comedy-horror send-up of the genre.
    — James Mercadante, EW.com, 22 Oct. 2024
  • 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
  • An article on Page 49 about the artist Pablo Barba misidentifies the birds depicted in one of his paintings.
    — New York Times, 14 May 2023
  • Williams has Graves' disease, an autoimmune disease that causes the body to misidentify certain cells in the body as foreign.
    — NBC News, 25 Mar. 2022
  • The parking control unit may fail to display the rearview camera image and cause the parking sensors to misidentify or fail to detect objects.
    — USA TODAY, 16 Apr. 2021
  • The parking control unit may fail to display the rearview camera image and cause the parking sensors to misidentify or fail to detect objects.
    — Detroit Free Press, 16 Apr. 2021
  • The trait of Barbara misidentifying Black and white celebrities went viral online.
    — Esther Zuckerman, The Hollywood Reporter, 18 Aug. 2023
  • Court documents in the Bahamas misidentify him as Richard Shiver.
    — Hande Atay Alam, CNN, 2 Aug. 2023
  • The article also misidentifies the type of glasses used in lab sessions during the Covid pandemic.
    — New York Times, 28 Jan. 2024
  • Studies have shown the technology is more prone to misidentify people of color than white people.
    — Paul Egan, Detroit Free Press, 8 July 2020
  • False positives are also common, Marlow said, as these types of systems have been known to misidentify broomsticks as rifles, and rulers for knives.
    — Amanda Musa, CNN, 1 Feb. 2025
  • The company said the way the question was phrased in the last survey might have prompted some respondents who opposed the recall to misidentify themselves as being unlikely to vote.
    — Lyndsay Winkley, San Diego Union-Tribune, 31 Aug. 2021
  • Advocates have said the number is likely to be low because police often misidentify trans people in reports of their deaths.
    — NBC News, 21 Oct. 2021
  • Of course, there are possibilities that the company could have a hard time training its huge worker base in new types of equipment or the company might misidentify the branding.
    — Trefis Team, Forbes, 27 Sep. 2024
  • Studies have shown that such systems are more likely to misidentify or struggle to recognize people with darker skin tones.
    — Vasyl Rakivnenko, Forbes, 1 Oct. 2024
  • These tweaks will cause ExamSoft to misidentify every test-taker.
    — Monica Chin, The Verge, 6 Jan. 2021
  • An article on Page 14 this weekend about the fight to preserve praise houses misidentifies the location of a temporary praise house constructed for an art project.
    — New York Times, 26 Nov. 2023
  • But the authors of the new study write that past work overestimated the extent of rock gardens by misidentifying roads, lava flows and vegetation for arable land.
    — Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 25 June 2024
  • When a time constraint was added, participants were more likely to misidentify a tool as a handgun when they were subliminally shown a Black face first.
    — Caren Chesler, Discover Magazine, 25 Jan. 2021
  • In a few instances, such as misidentifying a toxic mushroom as an edible one, the errors could be dangerous.
    — Jeremy Kahn, Fortune, 28 May 2024
  • He’s known to misidentify his political opponents and repeat falsehoods on a wide range of subjects.
    — Brian Niemietz, New York Daily News, 8 July 2024
  • Other studies have shown that facial recognition AI can be more likely to misidentify or simply not see people of color.
    — Matthew Lieberman, Forbes, 1 Mar. 2021
  • But labs that don't have the right equipment could misidentify the germ and cause patients' infections to be treated in the wrong way, because C. auris can be confused with other Candida funguses.
    — Devi Shastri, Journal Sentinel, 24 Mar. 2023
  • An article on Page 42 this weekend about the novelist Jesmyn Ward misidentifies her birthplace.
    — New York Times, 15 Oct. 2023
  • An article on Page 104 about Dorothée Meilichzon’s Paris apartment misidentifies the designer of her dining table.
    — New York Times, 19 Feb. 2023
  • And when the data sets are flawed, or the results are not properly interpreted, the software can misidentify symptoms (or fail to identify them entirely).
    — Wired Staff, Wired, 25 June 2021
  • This is because a VPN may route your connection through a server in a different location, causing the app to misidentify your current position.
    — Kurt Knutsson, Cyberguy Report, Fox News, 25 Dec. 2024
  • If your database is filled with old contact information, AI tools may misidentify donors, wasting time on ineffective outreach that could harm donor relationships.
    — Raviraj Hegde, Forbes, 25 Sep. 2024

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