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With all of this in mind, what is to stop a Major League organization from 'mis'-diagnosing an extra player or two on their 40-man roster?— MVN
One early mis-translation is in Genesis, "the spirit moved across the waters", should be "a wind moved across the waters", a mis-translation of the Hebrew word for 'wind' into "spirit or soul".— timesofmalta.com
We have not time to think, no means of calling the mis-managers to account, but be glad to obtain subsistence by hiring ourselves to rivet their chains on the necks of our fellow suffers ....— TulipGirl
If we run into such debt, as that we must be taxed in our meat and in our drink, in our necessaries and our comforts, in our labors and our amusements, for our calling and our creeds ... [we will] have no time to think, no means of calling our mis-managers to account to rivet their chains on the necks of our fellow-sufferers— LewRockwell.com
Old Austrian families, members of the only aristocracy upon the Continent that still possessed political weight and a political tradition, lamented the Emperor's consent to a union which their prejudices called a mis-alliance, and their consciences an adultery; but the object of Metternich was attained.— A History of Modern Europe, 1792-1878

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