Mistaken in example sentence

Except in extreme cases, confidence cannot cause a bad policy to have good results, and a lack of it cannot cause a good policy to have bad results, any more than jumping out of a window in the mistaken belief that humans can fly can offset the effect of gravity.

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And I can't even tell you about Tinder, except for the fact that if you think there is a limit to the amount of anonymous sex we can have on this planet, you are sadly mistaken.

So the idea that we deployed the troops to respond to the Taliban insurgency is mistaken.

If that belief turns out to be mistaken, it will make a difference.

So much sound bounces off this layer, it's been mistaken for the ocean bottom.

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