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Mistaken in sentence

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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.
For example, if you have read — I suspect many of you have done so — read the book by Thomas Friedman called "The World Is Flat," he said, basically, in his book that, you know, this fear for free trade is wrong because it assumes, it's based on a mistaken assumption that everything that can be invented has been invented.
In fact, every time I read in Ireland, people get me all mistaken and they say, "Oh, this is Chris O'Barney from Cork."
I was mistaken in thinking that I was unique and alone in this situation.
The Kraken, a beast so terrifying it was said to devour men and ships and whales, and so enormous it could be mistaken for an island.
But then there was another wonderfully pretentious article that came out in The New Republic, so pretentious, by Liel Leibovitz, and it said, "MoMA has mistaken video games for art."
Of the Fortune 250, there are only seven CEOs that are minorities, and of the thousands of publicly traded companies today, thousands, only two are chaired by black women, and you're looking at one of them, the same one who, not too long ago, was nearly mistaken for kitchen help.
I want to try to convince you here that this is mistaken.
I replied that surely this was a case of mistaken identity because I'm as far as you can get from being an athlete.
All of my black friends were raised with the same message, the talk, given to us when we became old enough to be mistaken for a nail ready to be hammered to the ground, when people made our melanin synonymous with something to be feared.
I want to live in a world where my son will not be presumed guilty the moment he is born, where a toy in his hand isn't mistaken for anything other than a toy.
Have you ever been mistaken for the wrong gender?
One hundred percent of the 60 women of color interviewed in a recent study by Joan C. Williams at UC Hastings reported facing racialized gender bias, including being mistaken for the janitorial staff.
This mistaken identity was not reported by any of the white women interviewed for this study, which comprised 557 women in total.
Some have even mistaken sleep paralysis for an encounter with a ghost or an alien abduction.
He suggested that we love because our desires lead us to believe that another person will make us happy, but we are sorely mistaken.
People are mistaken when they think that technology just automatically improves.
I have a two-year-old daughter named Naya who is under the mistaken impression that this conference is named in honor of her father.
As eyes flicker open, a night of chaos commences that includes broken hearts, mistaken identity, and transformations.
When I went back, this journalist called me and said, "You know, your name has been cited for the president of the republic," I said, "Ma'am, you must be mistaken, because I have no ambition whatsoever."
And the only ones that look interesting to me are the ones that look slightly mistaken, of course, or very, very surprising.
At other points, tragedy stems from deliberate duplicity– as when a case of mistaken identity leads to yet more bloodshed.
It was a case of mistaken identity, an all too common occurrence in this country.
Well, it turns out that it's become painfully obvious that the fundamental assumptions that undergird neoliberal economic theory are just objectively false, and so today first I want to take you through some of those mistaken assumptions and then after describe where the science suggests prosperity actually comes from.
One morning, over a decade ago, I was sitting there on my regularly weekly commute, and a beautiful woman from way out of my league walked into the Qantas lounge and continued walking straight up to me in a case of mistaken identity.
And not to be mistaken, these farms can produce enormous amounts of food, with one of the biggest facilities producing 30,000 heads of vegetables a day.
For the men in these photographs, the primary cause of their wrongful conviction was mistaken identification.
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