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Mistake in sentence

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At first my mom and sisters and I made the mistake of putting him in a regular nursing home.
This will be the worst mistake of your life.
(Applause and cheers) Nobody likes to make a mistake.
Then came the day when I realized my mistake.
We were making the mistake of thinking that a planet was always going to look like a planet.
After they made the announcement, a bunch of other astronomers commented on it, and so they went back and looked at their data and realized they had made a very embarrassing mistake.
So in 1992 at the American Astronomical Society meeting, which is one of the largest gatherings of astronomers on the planet, he stood up and announced that he had made a mistake and that the planet did not exist.
It never makes a mistake.
Because if you make a mistake, you don't leave any progeny.
Someone made that mistake already, so I can't do it anymore."
But as I sat witness to my grandmother's life as it tapered to its inevitable end, I couldn't help but feel I'd made a mistake not to share such a significant part of my life.
And when I debriefed the event with my manager, I just knew that she was going to run down the list of every mistake I had ever made, probably from birth.
And one of the first things they did was, they tried to take the comics page as is and transplant it to monitors, which was a classic McLuhanesque mistake of appropriating the shape of the previous technology as the content of the new technology.
When it comes to being what you say you are, the easiest mistake that companies make is that they advertise things that they are not.
"Don't mistake legibility for communication."
How could they make such a huge mistake without any repercussions whatsoever to their actions?
I said assigning a less than 20 percent probability would be a mistake in light of the current evidence we have.
It was all a mistake; it should have never happened.
Big mistake: it just sold for 80 million dollars two years ago.
These moments leave us with the uncomfortable knowledge that tragedy evolves from human error– even if our mistake is to leave things undecided.
So I feel that magic is a great analogy for how we edit reality and form a story and then mistake that story for the truth, and I've had a 20-year career in the UK staging big psychological experiments on TV, and now that's on Netflix.
Of course, now I'm very sensitive at home when we leave the lights on by mistake.
The first mistake is what we measure.
The second mistake we're making that impairs our foresight is what we reward.
The third mistake that impairs our foresight is what we fail to imagine.
Sadly, their parents mistake bottle caps for food tossing about in the ocean surface.
I made a really stupid kind of mistake that most 19-year-old males do when they think they're immortal, and I got a bad case of the bends and was paralyzed, and had to be flown back for treatment.
He had made a very simple mistake; he turned the wrong valve when he filled his cylinder.
But neoliberal economists would warn that all of these policies would be a terrible mistake, because raising taxes always kills economic growth, and any form of government regulation is inefficient, and raising wages always kills jobs.
Is our generation going to make the same mistake that a past generation did with atomic weaponry, and not deal with the issues that surround it until Pandora's box is already opened up?
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