How to Use misidentify in a Sentence

misidentify

verb

• Part of their issue in the past game was due to penalties, misidentifying some reads, while also struggling to get out of their own way.
  — Joe Buscaglia, New York Times, 11 Oct. 2025
• But soon, a group of preppy teens misidentifies them as murderers in a comedy-horror send-up of the genre.
  — James Mercadante, EW.com, 22 Oct. 2024
• Wear fluorescent orange to make sure other hunters do not misidentify you.
  — Jacob Wilt, jsonline.com, 25 Nov. 2025
• Studies have shown the technology is more prone to misidentify people of color than white people.
  — Paul Egan, Detroit Free Press, 8 July 2020
• And people often misidentify this body of water as the Potomac or the Patuxent.
  — Reader Commentary, Baltimore Sun, 13 May 2024
• Studies have shown that such systems are more likely to misidentify or struggle to recognize people with darker skin tones.
  — Vasyl Rakivnenko, Forbes, 1 Oct. 2024
• These tweaks will cause ExamSoft to misidentify every test-taker.
  — Monica Chin, The Verge, 6 Jan. 2021
• Advocates have said the number is likely to be low because police often misidentify trans people in reports of their deaths.
  — NBC News, 21 Oct. 2021
• He’s known to misidentify his political opponents and repeat falsehoods on a wide range of subjects.
  — Brian Niemietz, New York Daily News, 8 July 2024
• While the gun was not visible to surveillance cameras, Fraser stressed, the system did not misidentify the weapon in this case.
  — Amanda Musa, CNN, 1 Feb. 2025
• The parking control unit may fail to display the rearview camera image and cause the parking sensors to misidentify or fail to detect objects.
  — Detroit Free Press, 16 Apr. 2021
• Quarterbacks or centers misidentify middle linebackers and blitzes come from anywhere.
  — Ellis L. Williams, cleveland, 9 Apr. 2021
• Williams has Graves' disease, an autoimmune disease that causes the body to misidentify certain cells in the body as foreign.
  — NBC News, 25 Mar. 2022
• In a few instances, such as misidentifying a toxic mushroom as an edible one, the errors could be dangerous.
  — Jeremy Kahn, Fortune, 28 May 2024
• Studies have shown facial recognition systems misidentify women and people of color at far higher rates than white men.
  — Joel Bervell, Time, 14 Nov. 2025
• The trait of Barbara misidentifying Black and white celebrities went viral online.
  — Esther Zuckerman, The Hollywood Reporter, 18 Aug. 2023
• Thousands of people are poisoned every year during the rainy season by misidentifying mushrooms.
  — Sara Okeefe, The Mercury News, 16 Mar. 2024
• But Leitao, who spent much of his early coaching career at UConn, has been around too long to misidentify the real challenge.
  — Dom Amore, courant.com, 28 Dec. 2020
• But studies have found that many systems misidentify people of color at a disproportionately high rate.
  — Libor Jany, Star Tribune, 12 Feb. 2021
• Court documents in the Bahamas misidentify him as Richard Shiver.
  — Hande Atay Alam, CNN, 2 Aug. 2023
• The article also misidentifies the type of glasses used in lab sessions during the Covid pandemic.
  — New York Times, 28 Jan. 2024
• False positives are also common, Marlow said, as these types of systems have been known to misidentify broomsticks as rifles, and rulers for knives.
  — Amanda Musa, CNN, 1 Feb. 2025
• The other three generally struggled to identify plastics and, in some cases, would even misidentify shadows as trash.
  — Mack Degeurin, Popular Science, 30 Oct. 2024
• As late as the 1930s, scholars would misidentify the porcelain as produced by other dynasties.
  — Issy Ronald, CNN Money, 28 Feb. 2026
• Critics have pointed to studies showing that some of the tools can misidentify people of color at disproportionately high rates.
  — Wsj Noted., WSJ, 22 Oct. 2020
• Many misidentify water moccasins with other nonvenomous aquatic snakes.
  — Sophie Lindberg, Kansas City Star, 10 June 2026
• When a time constraint was added, participants were more likely to misidentify a tool as a handgun when they were subliminally shown a Black face first.
  — Caren Chesler, Discover Magazine, 25 Jan. 2021
• But the authors of the new study write that past work overestimated the extent of rock gardens by misidentifying roads, lava flows and vegetation for arable land.
  — Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 25 June 2024
• Other studies have shown that facial recognition AI can be more likely to misidentify or simply not see people of color.
  — Matthew Lieberman, Forbes, 1 Mar. 2021
• The authors called for clinicians to look for resistant ringworm cases, as clinical testing can misidentify the fungus.
  — Beth Mole, Ars Technica, 12 May 2023