as in to mix (up)
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Categorization errors: Automated systems can misclassify transactions, especially at retailers like Target and Amazon.—
Nick Perry,
USA Today,
11 May 2026 -
Official statistics undercount or misclassify incidents, especially with unreported crimes, and policies that treat repeat offenses leniently.—
Jeff Horseman,
Oc Register,
5 May 2026
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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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There were some who diminished the novels, lumping them with the frothy stories of such bestselling contemporaries as Danielle Steel or Judith Krantz.—
Rick Kogan,
Chicago Tribune,
2 June 2026
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Which means a licensed clinical social worker with a decade of clinical experience, training in ethics and boundaries, and the ability to recognize a client in crisis gets lumped into the same category as someone who completed a weekend online certification.—
Megan Bruneau,
Forbes.com,
1 June 2026
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“Missort.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/missort. Accessed 7 Jun. 2026.
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