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- noun Plural form of
mistaker .
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Examples
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I know that both the mistake and the repetition make us more skeptical, but they truly do appear to be equal-opportunity caption mistakers:
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It hath been my misfortune, now when I am gray-headed, to be charged by the mistakers of the times, who are so highly bent that all appears to them to be in the extreme for monarchy which is not for themselves.
In His Own Defense 1906
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The Revision had been necessitated, they said, because "divers doubts had risen for the fashion and ministration" [134] of the services, which proceeded "rather by the curiosity of the minister and mistakers than of any worthy cause."
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Not that I ever saw him rough or uncourteous with the most exasperating fool that ever rubbed a man's nervous system the wrong way; but there was a quiet, lurking smile which, supported by very few words, used to seem to have the singular property of making the utterers of platitudes and the mistakers of non-sequiturs for sequiturs, uncomfortably aware of the nature of their words within a very few minutes after they had uttered them.
What I Remember Trollope, Thomas A 1887
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