How to Use misclassify in a Sentence

misclassify

verb

• Or, more likely, misclassify the cells viewed on the slides as the wrong cancer subtype.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 29 Nov. 2018
• In their case, BMI can misclassify them as overweight or obese.
  — Suzie Glassman, Health.com, 31 Jan. 2022
• One striking example involved modifying just a few pixels in an image of a cat—causing the AI to misclassify it as guacamole.
  — Korok Ray, Forbes.com, 19 May 2025
• Yet, mounting evidence indicates these models are significantly flawed and misclassify too many toxic compounds as safe.
  — Jim Corbett, Forbes, 16 Aug. 2022
• The Labor Department said the rule would boost enforcement against businesses that misclassify workers as contractors to save money.
  — Harold Maass, theweek, 10 Jan. 2024
• There are times that companies do misclassify employees as independent contractors.
  — Erik Sherman, Forbes, 2 Mar. 2021
• The system associated the text of a word or symbol associated with a concept so strongly that if someone put that symbol or word on a different object, the system would misclassify it.
  — Jeremy Kahn, Fortune, 4 Mar. 2021
• Under the policy, the Labor Department can take action against companies that misclassify their workers.
  — Tony Romm, Washington Post, 5 Mar. 2024
• For one, adversarial attacks designed to mislead AI models can be used by malicious actors to misclassify data.
  — Connie Etemadi, Miami Herald, 28 Jan. 2026
• Sentiment analysis tools may also misclassify technical or neutral language.
  — Dario Sabaghi, Forbes.com, 21 Apr. 2025
• Labor advocates have supported the rule, saying employers have exploited lax rules to misclassify workers and avoid properly compensating them.
  — David Hamilton, Fortune, 9 Jan. 2024
• Labor advocates have supported the rule, saying employers have exploited lax rules to misclassify workers and avoid properly compensating them.
  — Jonathan Mattise, Quartz, 21 Feb. 2024
• The suit alleges that Uber and Lyft misclassify their workers, and that drivers for the companies should be considered employees, rather than independent contractors.
  — Aarian Marshall, Wired, 6 Aug. 2020
• To evade customs duties, the actors would use false documents to either undervalue or misclassify the goods, and produce false invoices and transport documents to conceal the real destination of the goods.
  — Glenn Taylor, Sourcing Journal, 3 Sep. 2019
• This pairing speeds resolution, improves accuracy and maintains trust, whereas full automation could misclassify or frustrate customers.
  — Expert Panel®, Forbes.com, 30 Jan. 2026
• In 2013, two corporate executives were ordered to spend four to six months in jail for falsifying records to misclassify their salaries as expenses under their employer's larger bribery and fraud scheme.
  — Aysha Bagchi, USA TODAY, 11 Apr. 2024
• But Rhode Island can’t make the sweeping assumption that these employers misclassify workers in good faith while the economic toll on our state’s treasury continues to rack up millions of dollars in unpaid payroll taxes each year.
  — Gregory Mancini, BostonGlobe.com, 13 June 2023
• Echo-Hawk said law enforcement has historically failed to accurately collect racial and ethnic data and continues to misclassify Indigenous people.
  — Erik Ortiz, NBC News, 5 Aug. 2022
• Businesses that misclassify workers also can get out of paying taxes to support unemployment benefits for Louisiana workers, forcing businesses that follow the law to shoulder more of the burden.
  — David Jacobs, Washington Examiner, 8 Jan. 2021
• Employers in construction, service industries, and other industries also misclassify millions of their employees as independent contractors to reduce their labor costs at the expense of these workers.
  — Erik Sherman, Forbes, 2 Mar. 2021
• Employment lawyers expect the Biden administration to aggressively go after companies that misclassify workers.
  — Irina Ivanova, CBS News, 5 May 2021
• These findings are consistent with a growing body of research showing how AI systems often misclassify, perpetuate discrimination toward or otherwise harm trans and disabled people.
  — Oliver L. Haimson, The Conversation, 7 Aug. 2025
• An investigation by The Associated Press in March found the system can miss gunfire, misclassify the sounds of fireworks or cars backfiring as shots and can be used in court to mistakenly link someone to a crime.
  — oregonlive, 18 July 2022
• Louisiana’s state government should not implement a strict crackdown on businesses that misclassify their employees as independent contractors, business advocates said Thursday.
  — David Jacobs, Washington Examiner, 8 Jan. 2021
• Likewise, subtle input modifications during inference—also known as adversarial attacks—can completely misclassify results.
  — Neel Sendas, Forbes.com, 18 June 2025
• Construction companies sometimes misclassify their employees as independent contractors.
  — Ames Alexander, Charlotte Observer, 14 May 2024
• FisherBroyles management-side employment attorney Eric Meyer notes that employers can easily misclassify employees as independent contractors.
  — Anchorage Daily News, 29 Sep. 2020
• Facial recognition systems often misclassify transgender and nonbinary people, AI used in law enforcement can lead to the unwarranted arrest of Black people at disproportionately high rates, and algorithmic diagnostic systems can prevent disabled people from accessing necessary health care.
  — Oliver L. Haimson, The Conversation, 7 Aug. 2025