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"We don't want to be doing this, we want you to do the correct thing."
From BBC ● Oct. 26, 2026
It was the correct choice for both art and money.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2026
Gallant’s refusal to grovel is the correct answer — the only answer.
From Salon ● Oct. 22, 2026
However, given very tight risk limits for hedge funds, when semis began to correct, forced de-risking exaggerated the drawdown.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 22, 2026
“Oh my, I didn’t mean to upset you. One thing my gran is correct about: blood pressure is a silent enemy. Let’s start over. I suggest we establish a tradition of petting these griffins.”
From "The Bletchley Riddle" by Ruta Sepetys and Steve Sheinkin
Not only the accompanying wall text but the entire exhibit corrects this omission splendidly.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 14, 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
"Six," the mother corrects him, nodding towards the bundle in her arms.
From "How the García Girls Lost Their Accents" by Julia Alvarez
Unlike the unwanted phase shifts corrected by the new technique, decoherence involves the loss of the delicate quantum coherence needed for reliable operations.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 26, 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
Then it was corrected to be effects artists.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 21, 2026
The agency said it has corrected about 15% of all active Social Security numbers.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 20, 2026
“They look like charging stations,” the woman corrected.
From "The School for Whatnots" by Margaret Peterson Haddix
But they always require a human mind watching them and correcting their mistakes.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 20, 2026
She promised cost savings of 15-20 billion euros within pensions alone by correcting "inefficient and unfair" measures in the current system.
From Barron's ● Oct. 6, 2026
“If they do not, the index probably has more correcting to do.”
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 29, 2026
Detecting those jumps has been difficult, so the ability to monitor them in sound could provide an important new tool for identifying and correcting quantum errors.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 22, 2026
“Toxic shock,” Farmer said, correcting the house staff’s diagnosis, and quickly adjusted the man’s medication.
From "Mountains Beyond Mountains" by Tracy Kidder and Michael French
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