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typo

[tahy-poh] / ˈtaɪ poʊ /
NOUN
erratum
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A typo in a caption in our last issue incorrectly spelled his name as George de La Tour.

From The Wall Street Journal May 19, 2026

The morning after this article was published, HPE said it had made a typo in a footnote in its press release.

From Barron's Oct. 15, 2025

It also included a typo that would turn out to be a crucial driver of diagnoses, wrote cultural anthropologist Roy Richard Grinker in his book “Unstrange Minds: Remapping the World of Autism.”

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 24, 2025

An unlikely consequence of all this has been the elevation of the once embarrassing typo.

From Slate Aug. 20, 2025

I couldn’t account for that hundred years, so I assumed it was a typo.

From "Educated" by Tara Westover

A.I. didn’t outline it for me and didn’t catch typos on a first draft, though I don’t have any more of a moral issue with that practice than I do with using spellcheck.

From Slate May 24, 2026

Jaxon Smith-Njigba was sent a trophy for Offensive Player of the Year that contained multiple typos.

From Los Angeles Times May 19, 2026

Andy O’Bryan, who co-founded an online group for entrepreneurs interested in AI, said he’s seen more people trying to scuff up AI-generated prose with typos or run-on sentences.

From The Wall Street Journal May 6, 2026

She couldn’t have known she’d alter my vernacular forever, but when Cher posted, “Whats going on with mycareer” — typos and all — nothing would ever be the same.

From Salon Mar. 22, 2026

“No. What if the typos themselves were part of a second word, too—made up of only the corrected letters that you wrote. That’s never happened?”

From "Book Scavenger" by Jennifer Chambliss Bertman




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