How to Use misidentify in a Sentence

misidentify

verb

• And people often misidentify this body of water as the Potomac or the Patuxent.
  — Reader Commentary, Baltimore Sun, 13 May 2024
• But Leitao, who spent much of his early coaching career at UConn, has been around too long to misidentify the real challenge.
  — Dom Amore, courant.com, 28 Dec. 2020
• An article on Page 49 about the artist Pablo Barba misidentifies the birds depicted in one of his paintings.
  — New York Times, 14 May 2023
• Williams has Graves' disease, an autoimmune disease that causes the body to misidentify certain cells in the body as foreign.
  — NBC News, 25 Mar. 2022
• The parking control unit may fail to display the rearview camera image and cause the parking sensors to misidentify or fail to detect objects.
  — USA TODAY, 16 Apr. 2021
• The trait of Barbara misidentifying Black and white celebrities went viral online.
  — Esther Zuckerman, The Hollywood Reporter, 18 Aug. 2023
• Court documents in the Bahamas misidentify him as Richard Shiver.
  — Hande Atay Alam, CNN, 2 Aug. 2023
• The article also misidentifies the type of glasses used in lab sessions during the Covid pandemic.
  — New York Times, 28 Jan. 2024
• Studies have shown the technology is more prone to misidentify people of color than white people.
  — Paul Egan, Detroit Free Press, 8 July 2020
• The company said the way the question was phrased in the last survey might have prompted some respondents who opposed the recall to misidentify themselves as being unlikely to vote.
  — Lyndsay Winkley, San Diego Union-Tribune, 31 Aug. 2021
• Advocates have said the number is likely to be low because police often misidentify trans people in reports of their deaths.
  — NBC News, 21 Oct. 2021
• These tweaks will cause ExamSoft to misidentify every test-taker.
  — Monica Chin, The Verge, 6 Jan. 2021
• An article on Page 14 this weekend about the fight to preserve praise houses misidentifies the location of a temporary praise house constructed for an art project.
  — New York Times, 26 Nov. 2023
• When a time constraint was added, participants were more likely to misidentify a tool as a handgun when they were subliminally shown a Black face first.
  — Caren Chesler, Discover Magazine, 25 Jan. 2021
• In a few instances, such as misidentifying a toxic mushroom as an edible one, the errors could be dangerous.
  — Jeremy Kahn, Fortune, 28 May 2024
• Other studies have shown that facial recognition AI can be more likely to misidentify or simply not see people of color.
  — Matthew Lieberman, Forbes, 1 Mar. 2021
• But labs that don't have the right equipment could misidentify the germ and cause patients' infections to be treated in the wrong way, because C. auris can be confused with other Candida funguses.
  — Devi Shastri, Journal Sentinel, 24 Mar. 2023
• An article on Page 42 this weekend about the novelist Jesmyn Ward misidentifies her birthplace.
  — New York Times, 15 Oct. 2023
• An article on Page 104 about Dorothée Meilichzon’s Paris apartment misidentifies the designer of her dining table.
  — New York Times, 19 Feb. 2023
• And when the data sets are flawed, or the results are not properly interpreted, the software can misidentify symptoms (or fail to identify them entirely).
  — Wired Staff, Wired, 25 June 2021
• Critics have pointed to studies showing that some of the tools can misidentify people of color at disproportionately high rates.
  — Wsj Noted., WSJ, 22 Oct. 2020
• Thousands of people are poisoned every year during the rainy season by misidentifying mushrooms.
  — Sara Okeefe, The Mercury News, 16 Mar. 2024
• The authors called for clinicians to look for resistant ringworm cases, as clinical testing can misidentify the fungus.
  — Beth Mole, Ars Technica, 12 May 2023
• Critics have said that the tech could easily be abused by the government, and cited studies showing tools like Rekognition misidentify people of color at higher rates than white people.
  — Louise Matsakis, Wired, 10 June 2020
• But studies have found that many systems misidentify people of color at a disproportionately high rate.
  — Libor Jany, Star Tribune, 12 Feb. 2021
• Among the major concerns with facial recognition technology are that it has, in some cases, been proven to frequently misidentify people of color and women.
  — Clare Duffy, CNN, 18 June 2020
• Quarterbacks or centers misidentify middle linebackers and blitzes come from anywhere.
  — Ellis L. Williams, cleveland, 9 Apr. 2021
• The responsibility is on people who are marketing these detectors to honestly look into the rate of misidentifying text and at what the consequences of that are, Shane told Fortune.
  — Stephen Pastis, Fortune, 3 July 2023
• Leaders may misidentify the business problem; further, whether an issue can be solved via ML, AI or the best automation candidate within the business is still foggy for many business leaders.
  — Expert Panel®, Forbes, 24 Feb. 2021
• Smith said there are several other animals that people misidentify as a mountain lion.
  — Justin Miller Communications Specialist Alabama Cooperative Extension System, al, 11 Aug. 2023

Last Updated: 2 Aug 2024