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The company “failed to correct the issue despite extensive corporate knowledge of the problem,” the FTC said.
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
If the date had been correct, the event would have represented the earliest known instance of space weather disrupting human technology.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 21, 2026
Our days were long, but I loved working with smart people, and people respected my answers because my answers were always correct.
From "Reaching for the Moon" by Katherine Johnson
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
“Laid off by the digital revolution, not retired,” Monica corrects her.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 5, 2026
Ryan corrects his pronunciation of a couple of Hebrew words.
From "Linked" by Gordon Korman
A spokeswoman for Walmart said the hard drive prices varied because of an error that has been corrected, not because it used personal information to calibrate the price of a product.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 26, 2026
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
“He lays in clean straw,” corrected Mr. Zuckerman.
From "Charlotte's Web" by E.B. White
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
Yet he went on correcting, as he had done for several previous editions, cutting and replacing words, rearranging sentences, even adding a new chapter to the sixth edition.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 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
Since there was no point in correcting him about Katherine’s relationship to her, she simply asked, “Where?”
From "Time Bomb" by Joelle Charbonneau
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