Word: mistook
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...don’t see [anything],” said Alex Cherenfant ’13, who briefly mistook an airplane for a slow-moving meteor. “Maybe...
...playground. Prosecutors say that after el-Sherbini's testimony, Alex W. lunged at her with a 7-in. kitchen knife he had smuggled into court and stabbed her at least 16 times. Her husband, Elwy Okaz, 32, was also repeatedly stabbed before being shot by a police officer who mistook him for el-Sherbini's attacker. El-Sherbini, who was three months pregnant at the time, bled to death in front of the couple's 3-year...
...famous for great detective work and the sweetly old-fashioned appearance of its dome-helmeted "bobbies," the Met (also known as Scotland Yard, the name of its first headquarters) has seen its reputation tarnished of late. In the wake of the July 7, 2005, London bombings, Met police marksmen mistook Brazilian Jean Charles de Menezes for a terrorist and fatally shot him as he boarded an underground train at Stockwell station. More recently, in April, as U.S. President Barack Obama and other world leaders arrived in the city for a G-20 summit, news vendor Ian Tomlinson was making...
...Plato mistook the good...
...Gulf of Aden - for the first time deploying a warship in an offensive role in international waters. For close to 20 days, the INS Tabar escorted some 35 ships to safety, including non-Indian-flagged vessels, but it accidentally shot down a hijacked Thai trawler that it mistook for a pirate mother ship. The INS Tabar was replaced by the INS Mysore, which went on to repulse two pirate attacks and arrest 23 suspected pirates, including 11 Yemenis, who were handed over to Yemeni authorities. (See the top 10 audacious acts of piracy...