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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
If correct, this would mean that the basic organization underlying the brain's crossed connections began developing more than half a billion years before modern humans appeared.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 4, 2026
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
Looking back on the photos, my sisters were objectively correct.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 4, 2026
The words to the Swanburne school song occasionally got mixed up with those of the Postal Tygers marching song, but as long as the children sang with conviction Penelope did not bother to correct them.
From "The Interrupted Tale" by Maryrose Wood
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When I ask him today to describe the landscape upon arrival, he corrects me.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 10, 2026
He corrects himself: “I’m having a riotous time.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 26, 2026
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
Another passenger, soaked, was having car trouble and had to ditch his van—no, wait, his Mercedes, Rufus corrects, because a train ride is a humbling experience for this rich guy.
From "They Both Die at the End" by Adam Silvera
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Any attempt to tamper with programming would surface during testing by election officials and be corrected, they said.
From Salon ● Nov. 3, 2026
"But I would rather be driving home from a game now thinking, 'OK, I misread it live, I've had the opportunity to go to the screen and we've corrected it'."
From BBC ● 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
I don’t know how Mister Lochana felt about that, but I would’ve corrected each and every single one of them.
From "Hurricane Child" by Kheryn Callender
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Researchers have been investigating whether correcting this deficiency could improve their health and treatment outcomes.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 20, 2026
"Having this conviction quashed is not simply about correcting the record, it's about finally having validation that this is an injustice that never should have happened," the 45-year-old said.
From BBC ● Oct. 7, 2026
In particular Mr. de Moura, who was focused on improving Lean’s core capabilities, spent long hours each day correcting Mathlib entries made by other contributors, who seemed to him demanding and disrespectful.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026
Malissa Tayaba, vice chair of the Shingle Springs tribe, said the bill was a modest step toward correcting the exclusion of tribes from decisions.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026
She jabs the tiny brush into the coral bottle, wipes the excess under the rim, and expertly strokes it on her big toe, correcting the line with her thumb.
From "Orphan Train" by Christina Baker Kline
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