How to Use misclassify in a Sentence

misclassify

verb
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  • In their case, BMI can misclassify them as overweight or obese.
    — Suzie Glassman, Health.com, 31 Jan. 2022
  • An investigation by The Associated Press in March found the system can miss gunfire, misclassify the sounds of fireworks or cars backfiring as shots and can be used in court to mistakenly link someone to a crime.
    — oregonlive, 18 July 2022
  • The suit alleges that Uber and Lyft misclassify their workers, and that drivers for the companies should be considered employees, rather than independent contractors.
    — Aarian Marshall, Wired, 6 Aug. 2020
  • The system associated the text of a word or symbol associated with a concept so strongly that if someone put that symbol or word on a different object, the system would misclassify it.
    — Jeremy Kahn, Fortune, 4 Mar. 2021
  • Last October, the agency reversed a Trump-era rule that permitted gig-economy employers to misclassify their workforce.
    — Jason Linkins, The New Republic, 6 Oct. 2023
  • Yet, mounting evidence indicates these models are significantly flawed and misclassify too many toxic compounds as safe.
    — Jim Corbett, Forbes, 16 Aug. 2022
  • Businesses that misclassify workers also can get out of paying taxes to support unemployment benefits for Louisiana workers, forcing businesses that follow the law to shoulder more of the burden.
    — David Jacobs, Washington Examiner, 8 Jan. 2021
  • Many companies have incentives to misclassify these workers as independent contractors in order to reduce costs and risks, not because of a truly transformed nature of work where those so classified are real entrepreneurs or self-standing businesses.
    — David Weil, The Conversation, 9 Jan. 2023
  • Labor advocates have supported the rule, saying employers have exploited lax rules to misclassify workers and avoid properly compensating them.
    — David Hamilton, Fortune, 9 Jan. 2024
  • Echo-Hawk said law enforcement has historically failed to accurately collect racial and ethnic data and continues to misclassify Indigenous people.
    — Erik Ortiz, NBC News, 5 Aug. 2022
  • Employers in construction, service industries, and other industries also misclassify millions of their employees as independent contractors to reduce their labor costs at the expense of these workers.
    — Erik Sherman, Forbes, 2 Mar. 2021
  • There are times that companies do misclassify employees as independent contractors.
    — Erik Sherman, Forbes, 2 Mar. 2021
  • Employment lawyers expect the Biden administration to aggressively go after companies that misclassify workers.
    — Irina Ivanova, CBS News, 5 May 2021
  • Louisiana’s state government should not implement a strict crackdown on businesses that misclassify their employees as independent contractors, business advocates said Thursday.
    — David Jacobs, Washington Examiner, 8 Jan. 2021
  • FisherBroyles management-side employment attorney Eric Meyer notes that employers can easily misclassify employees as independent contractors.
    — Anchorage Daily News, 29 Sep. 2020

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