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This sets up a question of whether the market’s assumption of just two more rate hikes is correct, or whether the number of Fed hikes has been sufficiently priced in.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 4, 2026
Looking back on the photos, my sisters were objectively correct.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 4, 2026
That projection is not the official result - but it nearly always proves to be correct when all the votes are eventually counted.
From BBC ● Nov. 3, 2026
The proposition would also correct the silver-loading hack by paying insurers directly for the cost-sharing subsidy, thus eliminating distorted plan prices.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 1, 2026
Some things had been too far gone to correct and history had just had to bear the scars.
From "Glitch" by Laura Martin
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
“Now I have them all written down on a website. Or if my mom corrects me for something that I’m saying in Spanish, I now listen.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 4, 2026
"Five," the analyst corrects, winking at the mother.
From "How the García Girls Lost Their Accents" by Julia Alvarez
Any attempt to tamper with programming would surface during testing by election officials and be corrected, they said.
From Salon ● Nov. 3, 2026
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
Unlike the unwanted phase shifts corrected by the new technique, decoherence involves the loss of the delicate quantum coherence needed for reliable operations.
From Science Daily ● 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
Any hound that got snappy with Bertha was promptly corrected, and the pack of yowling beagles provided a noisy but festive escort back to the POE.
From "The Unseen Guest" by Maryrose Wood
"Having this conviction quashed is not simply about correcting the record, it's about finally having validation that this is an injustice that never should have happened," the 45-year-old said.
From BBC ● Oct. 7, 2026
Malissa Tayaba, vice chair of the Shingle Springs tribe, said the bill was a modest step toward correcting the exclusion of tribes from decisions.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026
“If they do not, the index probably has more correcting to do.”
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 29, 2026
Detecting those jumps has been difficult, so the ability to monitor them in sound could provide an important new tool for identifying and correcting quantum errors.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 22, 2026
“It’s not for me,” I said, as if correcting him.
From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss
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