correction
Example Sentences
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The Russell 2000 became the first major U.S. stock index to fall into correction territory last week.
Even if a bubble already has burst, “that doesn’t preclude a big correction in the index if corporate earnings falter,” Higgins wrote.
From Barron's
“Once the sand sticks, it’s almost impossible to make corrections. So if there’s even a small part I’m not satisfied with, I have to start over from the very first step.”
From Los Angeles Times
"This shows that nuclear motion is not a minor correction -- it fundamentally controls the efficiency of non-local electronic decay."
From Science Daily
However, that advance only brought the benchmark back to levels seen late last week, and it remains more than halfway toward correction territory, having fallen 5.7% from its record high in late January.
From Barron's
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