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They may well have been correct; we don’t get to re-run the experiment and find out.
From Salon ● Aug. 16, 2026
He is also a deft social satirist, no more so than when skewering his characters’ politically correct pretensions.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026
But the Ifab football laws board has since underlined that this is not the correct interpretation of the law change.
From BBC ● Aug. 14, 2026
Mexico's leftist President Claudia Sheinbaum said Thursday that Colombia had refused entry to Mexican rescuers over an alleged lack of correct certification.
From Barron's ● Aug. 14, 2026
Across America, ophthalmologists rediscovered an obscure and risky procedure called radial keratotomy, and there was a boom in surgery to correct small impairments of vision.
From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis
He pauses, then corrects himself: "As fast as possible, of course."
From BBC ● Jul. 9, 2026
“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
The system includes specialized data processing that i.e. corrects for factors such as Earth tides.
From Science Daily ● Mar. 15, 2026
Mother lies on her side, her face next to mine, taking small sips of air each time the van fishtails, then holding her breath as Dad corrects and it snakes back into the lane.
From "Educated" by Tara Westover
But information arrives in fragments: a barcode result here, a recall notice there, a corrected FDA finding, a corporate statement, a congressional inquiry.
From Salon ● Aug. 14, 2026
Ofcom said the incident breached Rule 5.1, which requires news to be reported with due accuracy, and Rule 5.2, which says significant mistakes must be corrected quickly.
From BBC ● Aug. 10, 2026
Without pressing the matter, the script by Mr. Johnson, Todd Bartels, Lou Howe and Matthew Miller illustrates how vital it is for a young scamp to get corrected by tough, pitiless direction.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 6, 2026
Modi also said "mistakes made in youth" should be corrected through guidance rather than legal action, referring to the police cases.
From Barron's ● Aug. 1, 2026
“Just like the Ashtons,” she thought, then corrected herself.
From "The Long-Lost Home" by Maryrose Wood
In another study using different methods, researchers at Imperial College in London and Indiana University concluded that correcting this disparity would require insurers to hold even more capital.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 3, 2026
“I’m his lawyer,” Blanche replied, before correcting himself.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 30, 2026
In an ancient form of marking homework, a second person's hand can be seen changing mistakes, "going along and correcting them later and adding breath marks", he said.
From BBC ● Jul. 23, 2026
Tooke hasn’t bothered correcting the thousand of commenters who assume he’s at the World Cup.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 19, 2026
And the City, in its own way, gets down for you, cooperates, smoothing its sidewalks, correcting its curbstones, offering you melons and green apples on the comer.
From "Jazz" by Toni Morrison
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