Damaged
Mistook
Both words in one sentence
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A Russian missile silo mistook the asteroid for a nuclear attack, and The Computer mistook that counter-nuclear attack as an attack by Communists (its information records were damaged, and it could only retrieve 1950's cold war propaganda at the time).
Source: World War III
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Mistook and Damaged. (2016). Retrieved 2026, August 13, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/damaged/mistook
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Mistook or Damaged. 2016. Accessed August 13, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/damaged/mistook.
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