Word: mistakenness
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...said the ban was imposed "because if people choose to demonstrate their views symbolically, that becomes confusing--for example, in the case of the Confederate flag, regional pride may be mistaken for racism...
...convincing the public that an offshore menace is worthy of protection will not be easy. Though one is more likely to be trampled to death by an elephant or gobbled up by a crocodile, sharks do kill about 25 people a year worldwide -- usually because they have mistaken a human for a seal or some other favorite prey...
...point, Bernard writes, "Some protesters held placards which read 'Appeasement-Genocide' and 'I am the masculine American man--I kill therefore I am.'" The reference to "protesters" is entirely mistaken, since the demonstrators were supporting rather than protesting the policy of the United States government...
This year's Harvard men's basketball team will never be mistaken for Guy Lewis' Houston teams of the early '80s. Houston relied heavily on the inside game of Akeem Olajuwon, yet consistently lost close games due to ineptitude from the foul line...
...post-gulf America might see its economic problems in perspective: not as a metaphor for corruption and decline, not as an indictment of a society's health and vitality, not as a crisis of the soul but simply as economic problems -- a product of mistaken policies and misaligned resources. A post- gulf America might even see itself in perspective: as the planet's dominant power, afflicted with problems but able nonetheless, by prodigious acts of will, to turn history...