erroneous
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Between 2018 and 2023, the DOJ says, Aetna submitted or failed to withdraw erroneous codes for morbid obesity, applied to plan members whose body-mass index, or BMI, “was inconsistent” with such a diagnosis.
From Barron's • Mar. 11, 2026
The publicity stunt by the restaurant - called All Hopes No Promises - has led to Toto songwriter David Paich and manager Steven Karas calling the plaque "completely erroneous" and "comical".
From BBC • Feb. 18, 2026
During January’s fires, emergency alert failures killed trust: Altadena residents received evacuation orders five hours late, and 10 million got erroneous alerts countywide.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 27, 2025
Volunteers who work on free software he maintains, a widely used program called Curl, were inundated with useless or erroneous reports.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 11, 2025
In 1532, however, Johannes Vögelin measured the parallax of the comet that appeared in that year and claimed to confirm the erroneous result of pseudo-Regiomontanus.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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