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If traders are consistently correct, the sportsbook will stop them from betting.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 27, 2026
Gallant’s refusal to grovel is the correct answer — the only answer.
From Salon ● Oct. 22, 2026
However, given very tight risk limits for hedge funds, when semis began to correct, forced de-risking exaggerated the drawdown.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 22, 2026
Botman was shown a yellow card - the correct sanction for a reckless tackle - by referee Jarred Gillett for the Newcastle centre-back's 18th minute challenge on Villa striker Nicolas Jackson on Saturday.
From BBC ● Oct. 20, 2026
The robot’s computer brain went to work and she found the correct word.
From "The Wild Robot Escapes" by Peter Brown
When I ask him today to describe the landscape upon arrival, he corrects me.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 10, 2026
He pauses, then corrects himself: "As fast as possible, of course."
From BBC ● Jul. 9, 2026
“It’s not a romance, it’s a love story,” she immediately corrects him.
From Salon ● Jun. 4, 2026
As the market corrects its math, the quality names should outperform.
From Barron's ● May 29, 2026
“You can’t be the conductor and the drummer,” Nash corrects him.
From "South of Somewhere" by Kalena Miller
Musk has often promoted Community Notes, calling it "awesome" and asserting that all users, including himself, were subject to being corrected by the crowd-sourced model.
From Barron's ● Oct. 21, 2026
Then it was corrected to be effects artists.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 21, 2026
Blood samples collected throughout the study allowed researchers to track participants' vitamin C concentrations and determine whether supplementation corrected deficiencies.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 20, 2026
The agency said it has corrected about 15% of all active Social Security numbers.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 20, 2026
The only respite from the torment, which in Ranofer’s resentful opinion caused more mistakes than it corrected, was during the midday break.
From "The Golden Goblet" by Eloise Jarvis McGraw
She promised cost savings of 15-20 billion euros within pensions alone by correcting "inefficient and unfair" measures in the current system.
From Barron's ● Oct. 6, 2026
The department says minor mistakes or admin tweaks, such as correcting a name on a booking form, can cost passengers up to £40.
From BBC ● Oct. 2, 2026
The lawsuit claims that the Education Department has yet to respond to a credit-bureau dispute over the discharged debt at issue in the case by correcting the error.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 24, 2026
Detecting those jumps has been difficult, so the ability to monitor them in sound could provide an important new tool for identifying and correcting quantum errors.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 22, 2026
‘I really am. It is very rude of me to keep correcting you.’
From "The BFG" by Roald Dahl
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