Mistaken in example sentence

The beating death of Vincent Chin, a Chinese-American who was mistaken for a Japanese, also resonated historically, recalling a pseudo-scientific article on how to distinguish the Chinese from the Japanese that Life magazine published in December 1941.

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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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