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He said the correct Fed policy decision would be to stay on hold until these contradictory signals abate.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 14, 2026
Engelhardt may be technically correct that there’s no explicit law on the books about bodily integrity, but he’s wrong in a much broader sense.
From Salon ● Sep. 12, 2026
"Their weight is known precisely. They therefore allow us to correctly interpret the scale's balance. Similarly, the glass beads allow us to draw the correct conclusions from the properties of the infrared radiation."
From Science Daily ● Sep. 12, 2026
Chris ended up with six correct results, including one exact score, for a total of 90 points.
From BBC ● Sep. 10, 2026
“Is that correct? That you will be returning?”
From "A Rover's Story" by Jasmine Warga
When I ask him today to describe the landscape upon arrival, he corrects me.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 10, 2026
He corrects himself: “I’m having a riotous time.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 26, 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
Ama tries to mirror the finger spelling, and Autumn gently corrects her.
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
Often we are swimming in information: recall alerts, traceback reports, lot codes, congressional inquiries, corporate ownership records, corrected test results, viral posts and, increasingly, apps designed to help us interpret the whole mess.
From Salon ● Aug. 27, 2026
When corrected by Mom, he said—in a mea culpa that Dad should heed—“Oops! You’re quite right. Good catch.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 27, 2026
“Every twelve,” Nico corrected, though he didn’t explain how he knew.
From "The House of Hades" by Rick Riordan
The firm helped hospitals collect additional revenue by correcting billing errors.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 10, 2026
"But correcting a distorted representation is already an act of truth."
From Barron's ● Sep. 4, 2026
Snider notes that the best-performing parts of the AI trade were the places hedge funds added most during the second quarter, and unsurprisingly, these were the sectors correcting most severely in July.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 21, 2026
“I’m his lawyer,” Blanche replied, before correcting himself.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 30, 2026
After it was drafted, Laura typed it up while Yoyo stood by, correcting her mother's misnomers and mis-sayings.
From "How the García Girls Lost Their Accents" by Julia Alvarez
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