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typo

[tahy-poh] / ˈtaɪ poʊ /
NOUN
erratum
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When news of England’s 1-0 defeat to the U.S. during the opening round of the 1950 World Cup reached London from Brazil, stunned Brits assumed it must have been a typo.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 11, 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

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

From Slate Aug. 20, 2025

When he received the renewal quote, Mr Cunningham said he thought the figure was a typo so called the Tesco helpline.

From BBC Mar. 17, 2025

She found another typo in Griswold’s: exsessively—a misspelling she had missed all the previous times she’d pored over this story.

From "Book Scavenger" by Jennifer Chambliss Bertman

He then sent out the names of the districts being targeted, quietly lamenting a few typos.

From Barron's Aug. 16, 2026

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

Writers are adding typos deliberately to prove they have not used AI.

From MarketWatch May 7, 2026

I am told there are writers who can tap out a coherent essay in a single pass, at most checking for typos and touching up the punctuation before sending it off for publication.

From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker




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