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He was willing to update and correct his own thinking, and working and reading and writing towards the end of understanding himself and how he felt and thought about all of this.
From Salon ● Sep. 8, 2026
In the cases where AI took a guess—252 cases out of 338 total—it was correct 90% of the time.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 8, 2026
It has been a tough couple of days for Bankes, because while the VAR was 100% confident he had made the correct decision, it has attracted intense media scrutiny.
From BBC ● Sep. 7, 2026
In March, Physical Intelligence developed what it called Multi-Scale Embodied Memory, which allows its model to keep track of tasks for up to 15 minutes and correct mistakes — a significant feat.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 5, 2026
Guardian is correct: it is still far away.
From "A Rover's Story" by Jasmine Warga
He pauses, then corrects himself: "As fast as possible, of course."
From BBC ● Jul. 9, 2026
As the market corrects its math, the quality names should outperform.
From Barron's ● May 29, 2026
"After 160 years of getting it wrong, this paper corrects this very important feature based not on guesswork, but on empirical evidence."
From Science Daily ● Apr. 24, 2026
“Laid off by the digital revolution, not retired,” Monica corrects her.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 5, 2026
“At her celebration of life,” Ma corrects, that principal gaze slipping back on.
From "Kwame Crashes the Underworld" by Craig Kofi Farmer
When I referred to the luxury resort as a tourism development, he corrected me: “It’s just making money, it’s not about the development of tourism,” he said.
From Slate ● Sep. 8, 2026
He was corrected by Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins who laughed and joked: "Secretary Burgum has to do a little magic."
From Barron's ● Sep. 4, 2026
He added the £2m would address some of the extra funding needed but he wanted to discuss how funding shortfalls could "urgently and permanently be corrected".
From BBC ● Sep. 1, 2026
Ontario Premier Doug Ford corrected him, noting that Canada sends electricity to the U.S. that keep the lights on, as well as nickel for defense and uranium for nuclear-power plants.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 24, 2026
“Bees make honey,” Flora corrected, stopping in her tracks and letting her scowl hit me full force.
From "The Detective's Assistant" by Kate Hannigan
"But correcting a distorted representation is already an act of truth."
From Barron's ● Sep. 4, 2026
In another study using different methods, researchers at Imperial College in London and Indiana University concluded that correcting this disparity would require insurers to hold even more capital.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 3, 2026
“I’m his lawyer,” Blanche replied, before correcting himself.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 30, 2026
Slaughter is the latest in a string of recent high-court decisions overturning or correcting bad precedents, usually by 6-3 votes—among them Lemon v.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 30, 2026
I mean, I’m usually Astrid Jones, pacifist poet type who doesn’t usually pick fights outside of correcting your grammar.
From "Ask the Passengers" by A.S. King
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