as in to mix (up)
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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 -
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
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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
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Correction: Arkansas' team ERA was initially mistyped and has been corrected.—
Matt Jones,
Arkansas Online,
7 Apr. 2025
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What made the whole affair so sad was that everybody seemed to be responding to something different, though it all got lumped into the same rolling controversy.—
Bilge Ebiri,
Vulture,
26 Feb. 2026
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Wall Street analysts generally like MongoDB as a software stock that should not be lumped in with the rest.—
Jim Cramer,
CNBC,
24 Feb. 2026
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“Missort.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/missort. Accessed 6 Mar. 2026.
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