wrongly identify

Examples (10)

• The witness might have wrongly identified the suspect.
• It's easy to wrongly identify a bird species if you're not an expert.
• Due to poor lighting, the security guard wrongly identified the intruder.
• Many historical figures were wrongly identified in early accounts.
• She was wrongly identified as the culprit by the eyewitness.
• The system can sometimes wrongly identify harmless files as threats.
• Investigators fear they may have wrongly identified the motive behind the crime.
• He apologized for having wrongly identified her as someone else.
• Such errors can cause innocent people to be wrongly identified and accused.
• The analysis showed that some samples had been wrongly identified in the lab.