erroneous
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"If this effect is not accounted for, it can lead to the erroneous conclusion that the expansion rate is accelerating."
From Science Daily ● Sep. 9, 2026
Roughly a third of adults now consult AI for health advice, leaving doctors to untangle erroneous guidance.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 6, 2026
These include technical issues in China qualifying, a safety car turning the race on its head in Japan, a retirement while leading in Canada, and the still-unresolved farrago over erroneous pit-lane speeding penalties in Monaco.
From BBC ● Jul. 19, 2026
Sethi and Rounds made the erroneous filings in a request to the appeals court to review an immigration decision.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 4, 2026
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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