misclassify

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Recent Examples of misclassify Official statistics undercount or misclassify incidents, especially with unreported crimes, and policies that treat repeat offenses leniently. — Jeff Horseman, Oc Register, 5 May 2026 Its outdated reasoning is likely to misclassify customers and cause potential losses. — Chongwei Chen, Forbes.com, 2 Apr. 2026 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 See All Example Sentences for misclassify
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  • This eliminates the risk of mistyping addresses or trusting links in messages.
    — Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 30 Dec. 2025
  • 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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  • That number lumps new deadbot platforms in with much more widely used and established grief tech, like online memorials, counseling resources, and estate planning tools.
    — Lissa Soep, Vox, 17 Oct. 2026
  • Instead of releasing each film’s tally individually, the studio has been considering lumping the returns of all four movies together.
    — James Hibberd, HollywoodReporter, 15 Oct. 2026

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“Misclassify.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/misclassify. Accessed 19 Oct. 2026.

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