missort

verb

Definition of missortnext
as in to mix (up)

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  1. misclassify
  2. mistype
  3. lump
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  • It should be read as a warning about how easily headline metrics can misclassify exclusion as progress.
    — Katica Roy, Fortune, 14 July 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
Definition of 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
Definition of mistype
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  • But despite this budding success, ZZ Top seemed to confound the rock press, who tended to dismiss them or lump them in with other Southern rock bands.
    — Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 18 Aug. 2026
  • The report lumps vastly different jobs into the same broad picture.
    — Bobby Burack OutKick, FOXNews.com, 18 Aug. 2026
Definition of lump
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“Missort.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/missort. Accessed 27 Aug. 2026.

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