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Asked whether reports that Johnson would step aside were correct, his spokesman responded in a one-word email: "Accurate."
From Barron's ● Nov. 4, 2026
This sets up a question of whether the market’s assumption of just two more rate hikes is correct, or whether the number of Fed hikes has been sufficiently priced in.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 4, 2026
Looking back on the photos, my sisters were objectively correct.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 4, 2026
That projection is not the official result - but it nearly always proves to be correct when all the votes are eventually counted.
From BBC ● Nov. 3, 2026
It seemed like a bad idea to correct him.
From "Klawde: Evil Alien Warlord Cat" by Johnny Marciano and Emily Chenoweth
“It’s not a romance, it’s a love story,” she immediately corrects him.
From Salon ● Jun. 4, 2026
As the market corrects its math, the quality names should outperform.
From Barron's ● May 29, 2026
“Laid off by the digital revolution, not retired,” Monica corrects her.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 5, 2026
On Monday, Renfe President Álvaro Fernández Heredia apparently ruled out "human error", telling RNE TV show Las Mañanas that, if "the driver makes a mistake, the system itself corrects it".
From BBC ● Jan. 20, 2026
Ama tries to mirror the finger spelling, and Autumn gently corrects her.
From "Kwame Crashes the Underworld" by Craig Kofi Farmer
Any attempt to tamper with programming would surface during testing by election officials and be corrected, they said.
From Salon ● Nov. 3, 2026
Musk has often promoted Community Notes, calling it "awesome" and asserting that all users, including himself, were subject to being corrected by the crowd-sourced model.
From Barron's ● Oct. 21, 2026
Blood samples collected throughout the study allowed researchers to track participants' vitamin C concentrations and determine whether supplementation corrected deficiencies.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 20, 2026
Andy Burnham has asked for Parliament's official record to be corrected after telling MPs an "individual" was "responsible for the murder" of Ann Widdecombe.
From BBC ● Oct. 15, 2026
His name was Joseph Ryan—“Joey,” he’d corrected himself—and he worked, as she’d guessed, on Wall Street: he’d rattled off a string of names that she recognized as one of the big trading firms.
From "Little Fires Everywhere" by Celeste Ng
His call to bowl first in Cape Town also proved poor and he was helpless tactically when South Africa's openers attacked on the first morning before correcting things after lunch.
From BBC ● Nov. 1, 2026
She thanked me for correcting her and said, “Sí, sí, nerviosa.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 28, 2026
By correcting a key source of errors, the researchers have demonstrated a promising approach for operating more qubits through shared microwave control lines.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 26, 2026
Yet he went on correcting, as he had done for several previous editions, cutting and replacing words, rearranging sentences, even adding a new chapter to the sixth edition.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026
Madam HoOch then showed them how to mount their brooms without sliding off the end, and walked up and down the rows correcting their grips.
From "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone" by J.K. Rowling
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