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- verb Present participle of
mislabel .
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Examples
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In Canada, students nationwide collected fish samples from stores and analyszed the resulting DNA data, revealing significant market "mislabelling" of seafood.
THE MEDICAL NEWS 2009
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Such infractions include posting a non-unique photograph, depicting someone's face in a photograph, or mislabelling a scarf as a stole.
PoupeeGirl - Made Of Meat Greg Tannahill 2009
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Might the problem behind the debate be one of mislabelling the issue itself and misleading the interested parties?
Learning styles don't exist Clive Shepherd 2008
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Having said that and assuming you understand what I've just tried to communicate, it is a function of the mislabelling and miscalculation of language as a map ONTO reality and real-world processes that makes it possible to equate "intolerance" with the "intolerance of the intolerant."
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There is only a problem with mislabelling a station as “rural” if the station is in an area that is developing and thus warming over the relevant period.
Phil Jones and the Kazakh Copper Smelter (47N 67E) « Climate Audit 2007
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I STILL find it deeply offensive that they insist in mislabelling us as "transgender," too.
Sex and the MAPI Zoe Brain 2007
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So a whole bunch of creative mislabelling going on for whatever reason.
Science Fiction, Fantasy, Horror: The Wizards of Odd - Peter Haining Blue Tyson 2007
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The original mislabelling of the graph might have been a genuine mistake, but as you have shown, the graph does have provenance, so why omit attribution in the corrected version, when it does actually deserve it?
Risk Management Solutions Ltd and the 37 Professors « Climate Audit 2007
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The stupid, politically motivated mislabelling of the problem as a war has caused us to waste thousands of US lives tens of thousands of Iraqi lives and hundreds of billions of dollars.
Printing: Rob Kall: It's the Occupation, Stupid; Dem Language Lesson Desperately Needed 2006
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The stupid, politically motivated mislabelling of the problem as a war has caused us to waste thousands of US lives tens of thousands of Iraqi lives and hundreds of billions of dollars.
Rob Kall: It's the Occupation, Stupid; Dem Language Lesson Desperately Needed 2006
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