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If that's correct, the same emissions could produce more warming than we expected.
From BBC ● Sep. 8, 2026
He was willing to update and correct his own thinking, and working and reading and writing towards the end of understanding himself and how he felt and thought about all of this.
From Salon ● Sep. 8, 2026
In the cases where AI took a guess—252 cases out of 338 total—it was correct 90% of the time.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 8, 2026
It has been a tough couple of days for Bankes, because while the VAR was 100% confident he had made the correct decision, it has attracted intense media scrutiny.
From BBC ● Sep. 7, 2026
My aunt glances in her direction a few times but doesn’t correct her table manners.
From "South of Somewhere" by Kalena Miller
As the market corrects its math, the quality names should outperform.
From Barron's ● May 29, 2026
The new analysis corrects those measurements and finds no strong evidence for precession, suggesting the oval orbit likely originated during the system's formation rather than being caused by spin effects.
From Science Daily ● Mar. 12, 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
Ryan corrects his pronunciation of a couple of Hebrew words.
From "Linked" by Gordon Korman
When I referred to the luxury resort as a tourism development, he corrected me: “It’s just making money, it’s not about the development of tourism,” he said.
From Slate ● Sep. 8, 2026
He was corrected by Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins who laughed and joked: "Secretary Burgum has to do a little magic."
From Barron's ● Sep. 4, 2026
He added the £2m would address some of the extra funding needed but he wanted to discuss how funding shortfalls could "urgently and permanently be corrected".
From BBC ● Sep. 1, 2026
Often we are swimming in information: recall alerts, traceback reports, lot codes, congressional inquiries, corporate ownership records, corrected test results, viral posts and, increasingly, apps designed to help us interpret the whole mess.
From Salon ● Aug. 27, 2026
“Sara Christine and I,” Mama corrected, but I could tell her mind was on the snake, not the grammar.
From "Cold Sassy Tree" by Olive Ann Burns
"But correcting a distorted representation is already an act of truth."
From Barron's ● Sep. 4, 2026
“What’s up L.A.?” he paused before correcting himself.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 24, 2026
Snider notes that the best-performing parts of the AI trade were the places hedge funds added most during the second quarter, and unsurprisingly, these were the sectors correcting most severely in July.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 21, 2026
He wasn’t answering my question; he was correcting it.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 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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