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erratum

[ih-rah-tuhm, ih-rey-, ih-rat-uhm] / ɪˈrɑ təm, ɪˈreɪ-, ɪˈræt əm /


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I think his social media followers will instead shout, “Holy erratum, Batman.”

From Washington Post ● Nov. 1, 2019

But in an erratum issued by the journal, first reported by Retraction Watch, the authors said those two findings were “exactly reversed.”

From Washington Times ● Jun. 11, 2016

This one isn’t, strictly speaking, a study but, rather, a remarkable erratum to a study that garnered quite a bit of attention when it was published, in 2012, in the American Journal of Political Science.

From The New Yorker ● Jun. 11, 2016

“That’s another error in this publication and I’ve submitted an erratum to the publisher,” Thorp said.

From MSNBC ● Jun. 10, 2014

Thus was the first deleatur of pricking conscience duly heeded by Franklin, the Printer; the first erratum revised.

From Benjamin Franklin; Self-Revealed, Volume I (of 2) A Biographical and Critical Study Based Mainly on his own Writings by Wiliam Cabell Bruce

The journal will assess the claims, he adds, and issue errata or retractions if warranted.

From Science Magazine ● Nov. 10, 2022

The bill ballooned to over 3,000 pages in the House, and is stuffed with errata.

From New York Times ● Feb. 12, 2022

Bik estimates that her discoveries have led to at least 172 retractions and more than 300 errata and corrections — but all too often, she says, her warnings seem to be ignored.

From Nature ● May 12, 2020

If you have a correction to suggest, submit it through our errata reporting tool.

From Textbooks ● Mar. 27, 2020

In the twenty years between the first shovelsful of dirt and the final errata sheets, the scientists concluded that paleo-Indians had occupied Monte Verde at least 12,800 years ago.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann




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