misclassify

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Recent Examples of misclassify Industries with high injury rates also drive up workers’ compensation insurance premiums, which can incentivize companies to misclassify workers as independent contractors and deny them workers’ compensation if they get injured on the job, the analysis said. Jenny Gathright, Washington Post, 18 June 2024 Construction companies sometimes misclassify their employees as independent contractors. Ames Alexander, Charlotte Observer, 14 May 2024 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 The scientists note their attacks could make deep learning systems misclassify images up to 100 percent of the time, and that modified images were imperceptible from real ones to the human eye. IEEE Spectrum, 4 June 2018 See All Example Sentences for misclassify
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  • Dutch mathematician Jacobus Verhoeff reported in 1969 that two errors—mistyping a single digit and swapping two neighboring digits of one’s card number—account for nearly 90 percent of all human input errors in practice.
    Jack Murtagh, Scientific American, 12 Aug. 2025
  • Correction: Arkansas' team ERA was initially mistyped and has been corrected.
    Matt Jones, Arkansas Online, 7 Apr. 2025
Verb
  • While some neighborhoods were good to deliver to, others weren’t, and when people took the good addresses, the rest of us were lumped with the bad ones.
    Jack Hargreaves, The Dial, 9 Sep. 2025
  • They were infames lumped in with gladiators and prostitutes at the very bottom of the social ladder.
    Chris Schembra, Rolling Stone, 8 Sep. 2025

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“Misclassify.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/misclassify. Accessed 15 Sep. 2025.

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