mistook

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• The latest is maybe the biggest howler yet, bigger than even the ad that mistook Duke basketball players for UK Wildcats.

• Pistorius maintains that he mistook Steenkamp for an intruder.

• She mistook him for a servant and fed him kindly; later, she found out that the man was a top advisor to a major general.

• Perhaps among other things, Smith mistook kindness as a sign of as weak case.

• This made headlines due to the posters Emin put up in her London neighborhood, an act people mistook as an original work of art.

• Melodye or glee; here Koch remarks that Chaucer 'evidently mistook tirelire for turelure.'

• A scene like this must have been rare even to the priest of God; for he mistook this sad woman for one drunken with wine.

• The story goes that one night during the carnival he was wounded by some masqueraders, who mistook him for another person.

• When the sun rose, all on board beheld one of the Ba-hamas, which Columbus mistook for an island off the coast of Asia.

• But she realized her husband's horror and mistook it for disgust.