correctness
Example Sentences
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My father, a World War II officer and stickler for correctness, was especially proud of my medal.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 4, 2026
In the early 1990s, the two men wrote for a campus publication, attacking what they saw as political correctness destroying American higher education.
From Barron's • Dec. 24, 2025
There will be no political correctness during Waters’ birthday show.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 23, 2025
"I have seen the arguments in the papers by some lawyers regarding the correctness of some civilians being tried in the Court Martial," President Museveni said in a long post on X.
From BBC • Dec. 12, 2024
But, with luck, the addition of magnesium or possibly calcium ions to the sugar-phosphate backbone would quickly generate an elegant structure, the correctness of which would not be debatable.
From "Double Helix" by James D. Watson
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