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Nearly every major polling outfit miscalled the 2016 Presidential race.
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Jill Lepore, The New Yorker, 1 Mar. 2020
Jill Lepore, The New Yorker, 1 Mar. 2020
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In the course of the initiative, Nigel Jeffries, MOLA’s ceramics specialist, has come to believe that witch bottles may have not only been miscategorized but misnamed: these bottles were likely medical objects, rather than magical ones.Geoff Manaugh, The New Yorker, 31 Oct. 2019
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In some cases, police and lawyers inflict further harm by misgendering and misnaming victims.Kristin Lam, USA TODAY, 20 Nov. 2019
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Their euphoria over the pending sale is short-lived, though, after an anonymous caller demands millions to stay quiet about a discrepancy in the software’s accuracy, which shows greater likelihood that the software will misidentify people of color.Katie Campione, Deadline, 22 Oct. 2024
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However, studies show that Clearview and other leading algorithms are more likely to misidentify people of color, women, and the elderly than white men.BYAndrew Nusca, Fortune, 8 Oct. 2024
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Our biased admiration for good fathers is misapplied to a species, such as the bald eagle, in which biparental care is the rule.Time, Time, 17 June 2023
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First, if a bull market means to you that stocks are trending unequivocally upward, then, no, the bull market label is being misapplied right now.Jeff Sommer, New York Times, 16 June 2023
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“Miscall.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/miscall. Accessed 18 Nov. 2024.
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