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incorrect

[in-kuh-rekt] / ˌɪn kəˈrɛkt /


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Did poor data on overtime pay before the passage of the tax law lead to incorrect expectations?

From MarketWatch • Jun. 4, 2026

Taylor is correct that heteropessimism isn’t just for women but incorrect in citing professional misogynists like Andrew Tate and Nick Fuentes as practitioners.

From Salon • Jun. 3, 2026

In January 2023, she was told she would face disciplinary proceedings, with the firm claiming she had been submitting hours worked under an incorrect pay level, among other things.

From BBC • May 31, 2026

Tony Hinchcliffe, who helms the No. 1 live podcast in the world, “Kill Tony,” applied his politically incorrect approach to comedy that similarly outraged audiences at a 2024 campaign rally for then-presidential candidate Donald Trump.

From Los Angeles Times • May 27, 2026

“This is enough for me,” he wrote Rush, adding that he knew Adams to be “always an honest man, often a great one, but sometimes incorrect and precipitate in his judgments.”

From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis




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