Word: mistakenness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...been very impressed with how Michel looks out there in practice," Tomassoni said. "I guess we've been mistaken all along because it looks like his natural position...
...Iceman's equipment revealed an unexpected degree of sophistication. His copper ax was initially mistaken by Spindler as evidence that the find dated from the Bronze rather than the Neolithic Age. But the blade turned out to be nearly pure copper, not bronze...
...distrust of the police is also exacerbated by cases of mistaken identity. When suspects are described as Black the police are more likely to stop and question, teenagers say. "Some of them get stopped just because they're Black. If the kid fits the description, he's going to be stopped," Detective Franklin says...
Gomez's decision not to make the movie with Perry and Depp should not be mistaken for anything like "artistic integrity." Gomez is proud of the neighborhoods in which he grew up--in and around Somerville. But while he is interested in portraying life in down-and-out (mostly white) neighborhoods like the Brooklyn area in which "laws of Gravity" takes place, in no way does he profess to be a visionary or to be interested in art with a capital...
...abuse, a mother's custody of her newborn child might depend on a positive drug test, a notoriously imperfect procedure. Twice in the past three years, New York Judges have removed children at birth after the mother tested positive for drugs, only to find later that they were mistaken...